Latvijas politiskās kultūras jēgas konstrukcijas žurnāla Ir politisko žurnālistu publikācijās 2021.–2022. gadā

Abstract

Based on the constructivist-system theoretic approach to the explanation of the communication processes of the media society, the system theoretic approaches to the study of political communication and political culture, using the explanations of party democracy and party state offered by political science, as well as hermeneutics in the comprehension of its method of understanding, the article analyzes the shape of the meaning of political journalists and the relationship of meaning in publications of the journal Ir describing the activities of the government formed by Latvia’s poorly developed political parties and their parliamentary majority factions. The results confirm the realities of Latvia’s weak democratic political culture subcultures identified by international democracy measurements. The formulations of the meaning and meaning of the goals declared by political parties and the coalition government and the activities aimed at achieving them, constructed by political journalists, are mainly addressed to representatives of critical citizen political subcultures who are dissatisfied with the instability and insufficient performance of political democracy in Latvia. The texts of political journalists focus on the stability of the political “cadre parties” of Latvia and the instability of the coalition government, which are mostly described rather than analytically evaluated, making it difficult for readers to recognize the shapes of meaning and the overall relationship of meaning in the existing party state.