Publication details
Rekonstrukce konceptu konfliktních linií ve vztahové perspektivě
| Title in English | The Reconstruction of Cleavage Concept in the Relational Perspective |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politologický časopis |
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| Web | Politologický časopis- obsah |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | cleavage concept; de-alignment; intersecting circles; new social movements; political participation; Rokkan; collective identity; structuralism |
| Description | The aim of this article is to offer such a reformulation of particular elements of cleavage concept, which can be fruitfully aplied to the reflection of certain contemporary social and political processes. In following sections I will argue that (1) by focusing on social ties and relations this reformulation of the Rokkan s ontological assumptions has greater potential to reflect processes as: the intersection of social circles; the attraction of political actors which can be taken as nodes in contemporary social structure and can acumulate and aggregate individuals with different socio-structural background; or the electorate re-alignment/de-alignment processes. (2) With understanding democratization as a positive discourse extension and "not as a product but a special condition of public politics", next aim of this article will be also to discuss the role of extra-institutional political participation and selected non-state actors in contemporary decision-making process. |
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