Political profiling

Fabio Witzeling

ISBN 10: 620846076X / ISBN 13: 9786208460761

Published by Our Knowledge Publishing Aug 2025, 2025

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This paper presents a qualitative study of the political spectrum in Austria and focuses on current positioning practices in political discourse. To this end, four representatives of Austrian parliamentary parties were interviewed in depth and evaluated using objective hermeneutics. In the theoretical section, following an introductory historical overview, different diagnoses of the times and society are discussed with a focus on political sociology and the much-discussed 'depoliticisation of politics'. Four structural hypotheses can be extracted as manifestations of this complex phenomenon, which can be subsumed under the terms 'personalisation' or 'moralisation (of politics)', 'narrowing (of the corridor of opinion)' and 'flattening (of discourse)'. These point to a change in politics itself, away from the antagonistic competition of traditionally founded worldviews towards a consensual discursive order within the framework of a meta-ideology that operates at the level of the collective subconscious and thus cannot be the subject of political debate. 100 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Political profiling
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing Aug 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 620846076X
• ISBN 13: 9786208460761
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 167 grams

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This paper presents a qualitative study of the political spectrum in Austria and focuses on current positioning practices in political discourse. To this end, four representatives of Austrian parliamentary parties were interviewed in depth and evaluated using objective hermeneutics. In the theoretical section, following an introductory historical overview, different diagnoses of the times and society are discussed with a focus on political sociology and the much-discussed ‘depoliticisation of politics’. Four structural hypotheses can be extracted as manifestations of this complex phenomenon, which can be subsumed under the terms ‘personalisation’ or ‘moralisation (of politics)’, ‘narrowing (of the corridor of opinion)’ and ‘flattening (of discourse)’. These point to a change in politics itself, away from the antagonistic competition of traditionally founded worldviews towards a consensual discursive order within the framework of a meta-ideology that operates at the level of the collective subconscious and thus cannot be the subject of political debate.