IDEOLOGY IN THE CAMPAIGN PROGRAMMES OF PORTUGUESE POLITICAL PARTIES: THE 2009 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

• Autor(a) principal: Espírito Santo, Paula do
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Debates
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/debates/article/view/21348
• topic: Ideologia; Valores Políticos; Campanha Política; Mensagem nos Programas Políticos; Partidos Políticos; Eleições.; political campaign

This contribution is focused upon the electoral campaign programme messages of the political parties competing for the 2009 European elections. The contents of the parties‟ electoral programmes reflect their political and ideological importance and serve as a fundamental basis for understanding each parties place and positions concerning their project for developing the State. The importance of the parties‟ electoral programmes is evident from what they reflect, or should reflect, in terms of their political concept of the State in national terms as well as, from a broader political perspective, in European and in international terms. The starting point for this research is the assumption that ideology is a fundamental political category, though its loss of impact and of social and political relevance in Western democratic States, at least since late sixties. This research analysis as a working corpus considers the programmes of the five most representative Portuguese political parties campaigning for the 2009 European Elections. This study is based upon applying content analysistechnique to the programme contents of Portuguese political parties (political parties with national Parliamentary representation) for the 2009 European elections and it will focus upon ideology as a central category as well as upon several other key political concepts basic to the programmes being analysed. The expected results will focus upon the importance of ideology and of political values of the principal Portuguese political parties in relation to their proposals, their vision and their projects for the Portuguese State as well as European representation.