Overview
- Provides a comprehensive outlook on how seven European countries faced the pandemic
- Accounts for the complex relationship between politics and communication in contemporary societies
- Traces the emergence of a new model of female leadership, overcoming stereotypes and consolidated categories
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Women Leaders Between Competence and Empathy: Angela Merkel and Erna Solberg
-
Front Matter
-
-
Techno-populism, Expertise and the Welfare State: Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sánchez
-
Front Matter
-
-
Populist Leaders Against the Virus: Boris Johnson’s and Victor Orban’s Pandemic Narratives
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the political scene.
These complex circumstances required a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in political sociology and communication studies. To address these issues, this book analyses the communication and leadership styles of seven European leaders, grouped into ‘political families’. It analyses the cases of Angela Merkel and Erna Solberg to understand if and how female leaderships differentiated from their male counterparts. It then analyses the relationship between techno-populism and professional politics by comparing the cases of Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez.Finally, it focuses on populist leaders Boris Johnson and Victor Orbán, who represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes.Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Flaminia Saccà is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee ‘Sociotechnics-Sociological Practice’; board member of the ESA Political Sociology Research Network; and Director of the Science, Politics and Society Lab. Her latest publications focus on female leadership and gender violence.
Donatella Selva is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Communication at the University of Florence, Italy. She works in the field of political communication, media and cultural studies. She has recently published a monograph to explore the relationship between social media, information disorders and the processes of emotionalization of the public sphere.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis
Book Subtitle: Leading the Pandemic
Authors: Flaminia Saccà, Donatella Selva
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38380-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38379-3Published: 01 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38382-3Due: 16 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38380-9Published: 31 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 273
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Sociology, Political Leadership, Comparative Politics, Political Communication