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Story Coalitions: Applying Narrative Theory to the Study of Coalition Formation
Author(s) -
Shenhav Shaul R.,
Oshri Odelia,
Ofek Dganit,
Sheafer Tamir
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
political psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.419
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-9221
pISSN - 0162-895X
DOI - 10.1111/pops.12072
Subject(s) - narrative , politics , frame (networking) , sociology , positive economics , epistemology , political science , test (biology) , social psychology , psychology , computer science , economics , law , linguistics , philosophy , paleontology , biology , telecommunications
This article explores the potential of incorporating narrative theory into the study of coalition formation. Following a discussion of the role of narratives in group‐formation processes in a coalition‐driven dynamic, we offer a theoretical framework to examine the ways political stories espoused by people are mirrored by the partisan system. We integrate theoretical assumptions of narrative studies with coalition‐formation theories in an attempt to frame coalition‐formation models in terms of voters' political stories. We test our theoretical framework by simulating various possible coalitions in the Israeli 2009 elections and assess the results based upon data from an exit poll survey.