The social psychology of party behaviour

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The social psychology of party behaviour

Anna Triandafyllidou

Dartmouth, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index

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Description

This book offers a new approach for the analysis of party campaigning. The author reviews critically social-psychological theories regarding social influence and inter-group relations in order to construct new analytical categories suitable for the study of party behaviour in campaigning. The focus of the research is on the strategies and styles of behaviour adopted by small or large parties in electoral propaganda or negotiation. The theoretical and methodological approach proposed is applied on a case-study regarding Greek politics. The findings are discussed against the background of experimental studies on social group influence. The book shows the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach for the study of party behaviour. It highlights the social-psychological mechanisms underlying election campaigns and develops new tools for the analysis of political reality.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Party Behaviour in Campaigning
  • Political Reality and Socio-Psychological Theory
  • A Socio-Psychological Approach to Party Behaviour
  • The Case-Study. Greek Politics in Crisis: At the Threshold of the Elections
  • The Election of June 1989
  • An Unorthodox Coalition
  • A Government of National Unity
  • The End of the Crisis. The Social Psychology of Party Behaviour: Minority and Majority Groups
  • Party Behaviour: Styles and Strategies
  • Consistency
  • Negotiating the Conflict
  • Party Strategies a) Categorization b) Psychologisation c) Denial
  • Affirmation
  • Appendix. Party Identity: Introduction
  • Socio-Psychological Identification
  • Ingroup and Outgroup
  • Common Super-ordinate Party Identity
  • Political and Instrumental Super-Ordinate Party Identity
  • Social Representations and the Image of the Party
  • Social Representations: A Definition
  • Social Representations and Inter-group Relations
  • A Typology of Social Representations a) Selective Social Representation b) Justifying Social Representation c) Anticipating Social Representation
  • Social Representations and Party Behaviour. Hypotheses: Introduction
  • Party Power Position and Styles of Behaviour
  • Power Position and Party Super-ordinate Identity. Implications for Party Strategies a) Categorization b) Psychologisation c) Denial d) Affirmation. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Party Discourse: Introduction
  • Traditional Content Analysis
  • Beyond Traditional Schemes in Content Analysis
  • Semantic Text Grammars
  • A Discursive Syntax
  • A Discursive Syntax for party Discourse
  • A Computer-assisted Application
  • Appendix. Incumbent, Challenger and Outsider Parties: Introduction
  • a) The Newspapers b) Periods of Analysis c) The Data
  • Framing Packages
  • Styles of Behaviour and Power
  • Method of Measurement
  • A Consistent Party
  • Some Additional Remarks
  • Rigidity and Flexibility
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II. Interaction Between Rival Parties: Introduction
  • Categorization: Qu

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