How to measure political gnosis? Empirical evidence from Putin’s Russia
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Słowa kluczowe

political religion
epistemic apparatus
semantic structure
political regime
Putin’s annual news conferences

Jak cytować

Rak, J. (2017). How to measure political gnosis? Empirical evidence from Putin’s Russia. Przegląd Politologiczny, (4), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2017.22.4.13

Abstrakt

The research applies a method of sources analysis that draws upon a qualitative comparative study of three speeches delivered by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during his annual news conferences. It aims to solve the problems: how was political gnosis changing in Putin’s statements over the subsequent 2014–2016 meetings? And how was Putin triggering off a performative potential of presumably non-gnostic elements of discourse to enhance political gnosis? It identifies the drift from authoritarian to totalitarian and democratic gnosis and recognizes a moderate extent of the intensity of political gnosis. The article contributes to political sociology by creating and testing the empirical effectiveness of a research tool for measuring the types and intensity of political gnosis, and distinguishing between political diagnosis and gnosis.

https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2017.22.4.13
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