title: Political identity and the Third Way: some social-psychological implications of the current anti-ideological turn.
abstract: This paper considers recent large-scale changes in British politics from the standpoint of a detailed examination of the practical dilemmas, concerning political identity, faced by local politicians in their talk about politics. It seeks to examine the social-psychological significance of a shift which has meant that politics, while continuing to be characterized by formal division, has begun to extensively reflect the influence of an ideology of anti-ideology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK. d.a.weltman@bath.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weltman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011593:Psychology, Social; D006113:United Kingdom