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Conceptual Structure and Social Change - The Ideological Architecture of Democratization (Hardcover)
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Conceptual Structure and Social Change - The Ideological Architecture of Democratization (Hardcover)
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Sociopolitical changes are often associated with ideological shifts
at the individual and mass level. The study of how sociopolitical
and ideological change interrelate has been the subject of debate
for decades. Here, however, the authors develop and defend a new
theory that treats ideologies as complex cognitive systems that are
internally articulated around prioritized principles and values.
Focusing on the transition to democracy in Latin America, the book
examines the changes in mass beliefs that accompany democratization
in an effort to offer a more sophisticated theory of the
relationship between belief, ideology, and action in social change.
Ultimately, the authors argue for a cognitive-based model that can
account for how social actors come to define "democracy" in current
contexts. Taking democratization as a case study, Conceptual
Structure and Social Change focuses on third-wave transitions to
democracy of the 1990s because they are evidence of very complex
ideological changes and alignments. Using comparative survey data
as a tool to track ideological shifts, several ideological
uniformities are identified, such as the rise of a unified
opposition, the paradoxical support of the masses to the
authoritarian party in power, and the ideological shifts and
strategies used by ruling and opposition elites to gain mass
support. Viewing these changes as the mechanics of ideological
systems in flux paves the way for a general theory of ideological
change.
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