A Lot of People Are Saying

Muirhead, Russell; Rosenblum, Nancy L.

doi:10.2307/j.ctv941trn

Cited by 84 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The study of partisanship has traditionally been at the core of political science, and recently, it has enjoyed a resurgence of interest among political theorists (Muirhead, 2006(Muirhead, , 2011Muirhead and Rosenblum, 2006;White and Ypi, 2010. The driver for this resurgence is the view that citizens' disaffection with political parties weakens the ability of citizens to influence policymaking, thus depriving institutions of the civic engagement necessary for democratic legitimacy (Offe, 2006;Schmitter, 1995;White and Ypi, 2010: 809).…”

Section: The Value Of Partisanshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But the moral content of partisanship in these accounts is often both too wide and too narrow. It is wide because it gives the impression that the value of partisanship depends on an often overtly inflated duty of civility rather than a prudent appetite for compromise (see Muirhead, 2006Muirhead, , 2014. It is narrow because a sense of commitment to a community with a particular political outlook is deemed to be good, even when it is not motivated by a civic ethos centred on a concern for the public good (see .…”

Section: Partisanship Revivedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Let us start by examining some of these arguments (Muirhead, 2006;. The first step in providing an argument as to the intrinsic value of partisanship is to provide a definition of the relevant 'positive effects', or value, to which partisanship is directly anchored.…”

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To achieve the goal of an intrinsic defence of partisanship, we need to go a step further in linking the function of parties in majority rule with partisanship. Russell Muirhead attempts to do this when he claims that partisanship 'expresses a willingness to make a good faith effort to stand with a group striving for democratic legitimacy' and with a group that aspires to be 'ideally the largest of groups' (Muirhead, 2006(Muirhead, : 719, 2014. I take the phrase 'good faith effort' to mean that what is distinctive about partisans versus others (i.e.…”

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Partisanship is often the outcome of such civic commitment, and it often facilitates its expression, but it is not synonymous with such motivation. When it lacks this disposition, it also lacks intrinsic normative value (Muirhead, 2006(Muirhead, , 2011Ypi, 2010, 2011).…”

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

The Normative Value of Partisanship: When and Why Partisanship Matters

Efthymiou¹

2017

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent work on partisanship has highlighted the role of political parties in rendering democracy and justice widely accessible to citizens. In these recent works, a distinction is drawn between a contemporary conception of partisanship that focuses on fidelity to political parties and a classic conception that emphasises the importance of a civic ethos of active political engagement. I argue that these two conceptions of partisanship are not so disparate if we focus on the role of political parties in promoting civic commitment and contestation. More specifically, I show how a normative account of partisanship can contribute to a defence of a civic ethos of political commitment. I then argue that commitment leads to contestation among both partisans and non-partisans, and that polities lacking active contestation of political commitments are in one significant respect less well off than those societies where there is such contestation.

show abstract

Section: The Value Of Partisanshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Partisanship Revivedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Partisanship As Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

The Normative Value of Partisanship: When and Why Partisanship Matters

Efthymiou¹

2017

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Association Between Dimensions of Pathological Object Relations and Right‐Wing Conservatism

Yalch

2024

Appl Psychoanal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Right‐wing conservatism in the United States has many features of psychological interest that evoke the question of what factors might be associated with it. One factor that may be of particular interest to psychoanalytically oriented social scientists is object relations, pathology in which is often operationalized in terms of three dimensions (identity diffusion, primitive defenses, and problems in reality testing). There are reasons to expect that each of these three dimensions might be associated with contemporary right‐wing conservatism, although this has not yet received much empirical examination. In this study we address this issue, examining the association between dimensions of pathological object relations and right‐wing conservatism in a broad sample of U.S. residents (N = 392) using a partial least squares approach to structural equation modeling. Results suggest that primitive defenses and reality testing problems are positively, and identity diffusion is negatively, associated with right‐wing conservatism. These findings have implications for how we might understand right‐wing conservatism and dialogue with those identifying with it.

show abstract

Climate Change Conspiracy Theories

Räikkä

2023

Handbooks in Philosophy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A Lot of People Are Saying

Cited by 84 publications

References 0 publications

The Normative Value of Partisanship: When and Why Partisanship Matters

The Normative Value of Partisanship: When and Why Partisanship Matters

Association Between Dimensions of Pathological Object Relations and Right‐Wing Conservatism

Climate Change Conspiracy Theories

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About