The national idea in political party programs: federal and regional levels (with the analysis of materials in the Republic of Karelia)

The article presents an analysis of quantitative data in programs of political parties in modern Russia according to the frequent application of the discourse of the national idea in texts. The methodology of case-study is used to research the case of Karelia in the article. The choice of Karelia is determined by the specific character of the region, it cross-border position to Northern Europe. This allows to observe a conflict of authoritarian and democratic values in the region. The logical analysis of party programs is carried out in the work together with the content-analysis methodology. The purpose of the article is to identify the number of the political party programs, which offer the mythologema of the national idea as a basis of Russian people’s unity and which support party legitimacy in the country. The article represents two groups of hypotheses. The first one is connected with the frequency of the phrase «national idea» in party programs. The second hypothesis covers all party programs in terms of other meanings of the «national idea» phenomenon and the frequency of the definitions...