Abstract

TORRES STOCKL, Cynthia María  and  ZUBIETA, Elena Mercedes. Consensus and divergence in the social representations of political leadership. Revista de Psicología [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.1, pp.87-129. ISSN 0254-9247.

The aim of this paper is to analyze descriptively the consensual and differential dimensions of political leadership social representations, based on a convenience sample composed of Psychology, Philosophy and Humanities college students from Tucumán National University, Argentina. Results show a representational universe in tension characterized by opposite nuclear components: Leadership and Representation versus Power and Corruption, as well as opposite dimensions: Features / Positive Political Aspects versus Features / Negative Political Aspects, as well as two relevant clusters consistent with the latter two. Differences are also observed when analyzing variables such as: year in college, student’s political group membership, university political involvement and background / types of political figures.

Keywords : Social representations; leadership; consensus; divergences.

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