Introducing Relational Political Analysis

Peeter Selg is Professor of Political Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia. Andreas Ventsel is a Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at Tartu University, Estonia.

Introduction: political semiotics as a theory, methodology and method of relational political analysis.- Chapter 1: The 'Relational Turn' in the Social Sciences.- Chapter 2: Relational approach to the political: power, governance, and democracy.- Chapter 3: Three concepts of semiotics.- Chapter 4: A framework of political semiotics: political logic of the semiosphere.- Chapter 5: Political semiotics and the study of the political: power, governance and democracy.- Chapter 6: Political semiotics as a constitutive explanation and abductive research logic.- Chapter 7: From methodology to methods and applications: introducing political form analysis.- Chapter 8: Application of relational political analysis: political semiotic explanation of the constitution of digital threats.- Conclusion: The Subject and Agenda for Relational Political Analysis.

"It is more than an introduction, since it makes an in-depth analysis of different theoretical traditions to, in the end, present a synthesis that constitutes an important contribution to the literature on this subject." (Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 34, 2021)

“It is more than an introduction, since it makes an in-depth analysis of different theoretical traditions to, in the end, present a synthesis that constitutes an important contribution to the literature on this subject.” (Farid Samir Benavides‑Vanegas, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 34, 2021)