نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری روابط بین‌الملل، گروه روابط بین‌الملل، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تهران شمال، تهران، ایران
2 استاد مدعو گروه روابط بین‌الملل، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تهران شمال، تهران، ایران
چکیده
چگونگی تأثیر هیجانات بر رفتار سیاسی بواسطه نقش تعیین‌کننده آن در انتخاب سیاسی و تأثیرگذار در میزان مشارکت و همچنین نتایج انتخابات، موضوعی است که جایگاه مطالعاتی آن در حوزه روانشناسی سیاسی قرار می‌گیرد. در حالی که همواره در بسیاری از کشورها شاهد برگزاری انتخابات هستیم، یافته‌های روانشناسی سیاسی نشان می‌دهد که در بسیاری از موارد نتیجه انتخابات تابعی از هیجان بوده و این هیجانات نقش مؤثری در میزان مشارکت مردم دارد. این پژوهش با مروری اجمالی بر انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ایران، ضمن گردآوری مستندات تاریخی و استفاده از روش توصیفی ـ تحلیلی، به دنبال پاسخ به این پرسش است که اساساً گرایش مردم در انتخابات، بیشتر تحت تأثیر انتخاب عقلانی است یا تابعی از هیجانات می‌باشد. بعبارتی کدام متغیر نقش مؤثرتری بر فرآیند انتخابات داشته و اینکه چه طیفی از جامعه، چرا و در چه شرایطی تحت تأثیر فضای هیجانی قرار می‌گیرند؟ اگر انتخاب عقلانی را (صرف‌نظر از اثرات مثبت و منفی هیجان بر انتخاب) بعنوان هدفی منطقی در نظر بگیریم، مروری بر انتخابات ادوار ریاست جمهوری ایران مؤید این فرضیه است که وقوع حوادث مؤثر در کنار حضور چهره‌ها و رقبای خاص در مقاطع مختلف، می‌تواند منجر به ایجاد هیجان و فضای پرشور سیاسی و رقابتی و در نتیجه میزان مشارکت مردم گردد.
کلیدواژه‌ها
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
The Role of Emotion in the Political Choice: The Case of Presidential Elections in Iran
نویسندگان [English]
- Reza Rastegarpour 1
- Hasan Shafiee 2
- Mohammad Reza Dehshiri 2
1 Ph.D Student, International Relations, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
چکیده [English]
Researchers, political parties and groups, and states have always been interested to understand the behavior and mental processes influencing the political choice, the reasons underlying participation or non-participation, and the behavior and motivation of voters. In addition to the contextual factors (e.g., mass media, groups, political parties, states, ideologies, ethnicity, religions, regions, social classes, and the like), the behavioral processes of feeling, perception, motivation, or emotion can also play a determining role in the political attitude, understanding, and choice—alongside the prevailing conditions, culture, and atmosphere of a given society. This is a legitimate research topic in the field of political psychology worthy of further investigation. In this respect, the present research intends to examine emotion as one of the internal, behavioral states and processes influencing the political choice and the participation level.
The motivation behind voters’ participation in elections depends on various factors. The first and perhaps the most important one is the acceptance of sovereignty and state by people, so the legitimacy of the governance system, trust in the health and fairness of elections, and confidence about the candidacy of real representatives of people are the determining factors influencing people’s participation. The second important factor is the general atmosphere prevailing in society, that is, the extent to which the most important issues of the day can motivate and encourage people’s participation in elections. Economic, social, and political crises or the events such as the possibility of war and internal disputes, together with healing and savior-like promises, can be considered as effective issues in the election process. Definitely influencing the participation level, the third significant factor is the candidacy of prominent, popular, charismatic, and influential figures. Moreover, a competitive and partisan atmosphere can increase the participation level to its high. Finally, by helping individuals, parties, and candidates in different ways, advertising and media performs a significant role in their victory or defeat. Besides these important reasons, the findings of political psychology show that in many cases the election result usually depends on emotion as a factor influencing the type and level of people’s participation in elections.
Offering a brief overview of the Iranian presidential elections, the present research employs the theory of rational choice as a theoretical framework and the descriptive–analytical method in order to analyze the collected historical documents. The research tries to answer the key question of whether people’s tendency in elections is more influenced by rational choice or by emotion. In other words, which variable has a more influential role in the election process? and what spectrum of society, why, and under what conditions is affected by the emotional atmosphere? Assuming the rational choice as a logical goal, regardless of the positive and negative effects of emotion on the choice, an overview of the Iranian presidential elections confirms the hypothesis that influential events along with the presence of certain figures and competitors at different times can arouse emotion and create a passionate political and competitive atmosphere, leading to a high participation level.
The study briefly reviews the results of the Iranian presidential elections from the beginning until now, but it especially focuses on the phases that witnessed the highest and lowest participation rates. The highest rate was seen in the third election (the election of Ayatollah Khamenei), the seventh election (the election of Mohammad Khatami) and the tenth election (the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) while the sixth election (the election of Hashemi-Rafsanjani) and the thirteenth election (the election of Ebrahim Raisi) had the lowest level of people’s participation.
There are various reasons behind the decrease and increase in the participation rate. The focus on motivational factors makes manifest the undeniable effect of changes in political emotion on the participation level. As an answer to the research questions, the findings generally confirm the theory of rational choice subscribing to the view that people naturally rely on rational calculations and consider personal interests in each choice, including the political one. However, the study of the presidential elections in Iran made clear that, in addition to motivational factors, other factors such as certain events and the presence of certain political figures at different times could arouse emotion and create a passionate political and competitive atmosphere, leading to an increase in the participation level.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
- Political Psychology
- Motivation
- Emotion
- Political Choice
- Behavioral Patterns
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