Volume 25 Num. 1 - March 2025
Análisis funcional-contextual de la conducta (verbal) política. Demagogia y transformación de funciones psicológicas [A Functional-Contextualist Account of Political (Verbal) Behavior. Demagogy and Transformation of Psychological Functions]
Volume 25 Num. 1 - March 2025 - Pages 3-33
Authors:
J. Carmelo Visdómine Lozano
Abstract:
A Functional-Contextualist Account of Political (Verbal) Behavior. Demagogy and Transformation of Psychological Functions. This paper analyses political behavior from a functional-contextualist viewpoint. In particular, the different tactics or “mechanisms” involved in the political language of “demagogy” are split up, with the aim of understanding the auspicious effects that demagogue politicians obtain in the State where they act, and how such political strategy is able to raise, maintain, and perpetuate at the height of power to the politician behaving in that way, even despite the damaging consequences derived at medium and long term for that State. Both traditional behavior-analytic concepts like “say-do” relations, and recent functional-contextualist theoretical advances like “derived relational responding” (or “relational frames”) and “transformation of functions” are employed, but also close concepts of other disciplines such as the emic/etic distinction of M. Harris’ Materialist Anthropology, as well as the theoretical analysis of linguistic conduct made by G. Bueno’s Philosophical Materialism, which divide such conduct from a philosophical perspective into three axes: semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic. As result, six mechanisms are found to take part in the relational structure of demagogy: Manicheism, Redemptionism, Machiavellism, Sophistic, Ridiculing, and Hypocrisy. Finally, the transformation of psychological functions entailed by such mechanisms are detailed.
How to cite this paper:
Visdómine-Lozano JC (2025). Análisis funcional-contextual de la conducta (verbal) política. Demagogia y transformación de funciones psicológicas. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 25, 1, 3-33
Key words:
demagogy, democratic authoritarianism, functional-contextualist analysis, hypocrisy, machiavellism, manicheism, redemptionism, ridiculing, sophistic
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