Identyfikowanie śladów polityki rozłamowej w dokumentach ideowo-programowych partii politycznych: założenia metodologiczno-teoretyczne
Identification of Traces of Cleavage Politics in Party Manifestos: Methodological and Theoretical Assumptions

Summary/Abstract: Articulation of ideological and political position gains special importance in the conditions of cleavage. Structuring of a cleavage and political behavior distinctive to it are to some – albeit considerable – extent dependent on coherent and well-organized political expression of beliefs and postulates, addressed to certain social groups. It is an important role of party manifestos to organize relations between parties and their widely understood socio-political environment. On that account searching for traces of cleavage politics in party manifestos is so important, because some of the statements contained in such documents gain specific sense just in the conditions of cleavage. The aim of this paper is to deliver some research guidelines for those political science studies that aim at identification of traces of cleavage politics in party manifestos, especially bearing in mind Polish political conditions. The study was prepared on the basis of criteria derived from theories of socio-political cleavages, as well as theoretical criteria concerning the functions of party manifestos, integrating dispersed theoretical knowledge and empirical findings. The article points to crucial methodological and theoretical assumptions, as well as directions of research on cleavage politics in matters set in the title of the paper.

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