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dc.contributor.authorHerman, L
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-01T14:34:18Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-01
dc.description.abstractPluralist norms, which prescribe certain attitudes of openness and mutual respect for diverging views, have long been considered a central pillar of liberal democracy. While democratic theorists have championed these values, they have been conflicted as to the capacity of political parties to carry them. Partisanship is widely recognized as an essential institution of democratic regimes but it has also been traditionally associated with intransigence rather than tolerance. This paper investigates this theoretical debate from an empirical standpoint, asking whether partisans can be carriers of pluralist values. It relies on focus-group methodology and software-assisted textual analysis to evaluate the extent to which the discourse of 117 party members in two different national contexts, France and Hungary, resonates with the pluralist worldview. The results of this study provide key empirical insights into the nature of partisanship, demonstrating wide variations in the extent to which partisans uphold pluralist principles, but also their capacity to do so at a stringent level.
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 1 July 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1369148120930597
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/120893
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSAGE Publications / Political Studies Associationen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2020. Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions
dc.subjectfocus group methodology
dc.subjectFrance
dc.subjectHungary
dc.subjectliberal pluralism
dc.subjectnormative political theory
dc.subjectpartisanship
dc.titleCan partisans be pluralist? A comparative study of party member discourse in France and Hungaryen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-05-01T14:34:18Z
dc.identifier.issn1369-1481
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalBritish Journal of Politics and International Relationsen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-04-15
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-04-15
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-05-01T11:27:03Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2020-08-10T12:40:48Z
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