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The morality of political speech in parliamentary debates: an analysis of parliamentary party dynamics, based on what they say and how they say it
| Resumo: | Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) is an area of study with multiple and varied applications, including political science. Indeed, many studies have denoted that part of the reason for the deepening divide between American liberals and conservatives is due to the fact that both of these groups rely on fundamentally different moral principles. While this research has started to pan outside of the United States of America, it has yet to be applied to the context of the Portuguese republic, which differs from the American political reality. Portugal’s democracy is built on top of a multi-party system, and conventional wisdom divides it into a right and left wing, rather than liberal and conservative. As such, we developed a Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) in European Portuguese and analyzed 10 years’ worth of transcripts from parliamentary sessions through the prism of MFT, in an effort to find out which are the parliamentary dynamics in Portuguese political speech. Indeed, we found evidence that the Portuguese political parties place themselves on a right/left wing spectrum when looked at through the lens of MFT, but also that there appears to be a government/opposition dichotomy at play, which could affect party dynamics. |
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| Autores principais: | Zúquete, Mafalda Patacão |
| Assunto: | Moral Foundations Theory Moral Foundations Dictionary Politics Liberals Conservatives Text Mining Teoria dos Fundamentos Morais Dicionário dos Fundamentos Morais Política Liberais |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) is an area of study with multiple and varied applications, including political science. Indeed, many studies have denoted that part of the reason for the deepening divide between American liberals and conservatives is due to the fact that both of these groups rely on fundamentally different moral principles. While this research has started to pan outside of the United States of America, it has yet to be applied to the context of the Portuguese republic, which differs from the American political reality. Portugal’s democracy is built on top of a multi-party system, and conventional wisdom divides it into a right and left wing, rather than liberal and conservative. As such, we developed a Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) in European Portuguese and analyzed 10 years’ worth of transcripts from parliamentary sessions through the prism of MFT, in an effort to find out which are the parliamentary dynamics in Portuguese political speech. Indeed, we found evidence that the Portuguese political parties place themselves on a right/left wing spectrum when looked at through the lens of MFT, but also that there appears to be a government/opposition dichotomy at play, which could affect party dynamics. |
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