Kampaň před prvním kolem české prezidentské volby v roce 2013 z perspektivy Alexanderovy performativní teorie

• Authors: Vít Horák

Title variants

EN

The First round of the Czech Presidential Campaign in 2013 in the Perspective of Alexander’s Performative Theory

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The presented paper tries to interpret the campaign before the Czech presidential election in 2013 from the perspective of Jeffrey Alexander’s performative theory. It argues that the process of preference formation cannot be completely explained on the basis of rational interests of the voters, media or socioeconomic strata. On the contrary, the paper based in durkheimian paradigm argues for the importance of collective emotions. The campaign is understood here as a sequence of performative acts in which the candidates, understood as collective representations, try to associate themselves with emotions of the voters. The performance in Alexander’s perspective takes place in the civil sphere formed by the cultural code with binary structure of the democratic and antidemocratic side. In this perspective the case of Czech presidential campaign will be shown with the focus on the unexpected advancement of Karel Schwarzenberg to the second round of the election.

Keywords

EN

Czech presidential campaign 2013; Jeffrey Alexander; performative theory; collective representation

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 30-40

Contributors

author

Vít Horák

• CVVM, SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/1214-438X.2013.11.2.3