Ideal Types in Political Marketing
Ideal Types in Political Marketing

Summary/Abstract: The collection of essays “Political Marketing – A Comparative Perspective”, edited by Jennifer Lees-Marshment and Darren Lilleker, captures a considerable part of the evolution of ideal types of behavior regarding political parties. This review researches the developmental process by means of criteria set out by Max Weber for ideal types in social science. The later refinements of the criteria by the phenomenologist Alfred Schutz and sociologist Roger Carroll are also used. Sartori’s methodological debate is deployed as a frame from the perspective of the applicability of the comparative model. Neither Sartori’s rules for stretching, nor Schutz’s consistency, compatibility and adequacy are satisfactorily fulfilled. The setting of the model also casts doubts on the rigour of political marketing as a discipline.

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