Analysis and investigation of political participation in the discourse of the reformist government based on the theory of Laclau and Mouffe(with emphasis on youth political participation)

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Abolghasem Shamsabadi ¹ , Moosa Shahriyari ² , Yousef Amini ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Sociology, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran
3 - Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran

Received: 2022-12-05 Accepted : 2023-01-28 Published : 2022-12-01

Keywords: Discourse, political participation, democracy, Semantic system, reform government, Laclau and Mouffe' s theory,

Abstract :

The issue of political participation can be viewed from different view points and political participation is different in the discourse of different governments. The basic hypothesis of a discourse approach is that the possibility of thought, action and complete understanding depends on the construction of the semantic domain. So, the purpose of this article is to analyze and investigate the political participation in the discourse of the reform based government and to investigate its semantic system based on the theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of type. In this regard, Fairclough's discourse analysis method was used. The time of the current research, in terms of the research dimension, included the presidency period of Khatami. The statistical community is a collection of speeches and interviews of the heads of government during the reform period regarding political participation. The analysis of the sentences was done in order to find the signifiers of the justice-oriented principled discourse based on Laclau and Mouffe's method. findings indicate that the reformist discourse is identified with the central sign of democracy and the elaboration of the signs of civil society, reforms, law, freedom and political development. The political participation of young people is high and compared to the previous periods, there is a significant increase in the political participation of young people. During of Khatami, the stage was prepared for people's participation and media freedom.