Emotional governance politics, media and terror /

• Main Author: Richards, Barry.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Subjects: Communication in politics.; Political psychology.; Mass media > Psychological aspects.; Terrorism > Press coverage > Psychological aspects.; PHILOSOPHY > Political.; Terrorism > Psychological aspects. > Press coverage; Electronic books.
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This book argues that the development of political leadership as emotional management is essential to the defence of democracy against terror, boredom and demagogy. This lucid and original work combines recent studies of politics and the media with a psychological approach to the relationship betwee...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The case for emotional governance
• Shaping the public mind
• The rise of therapeutic culture
• Global passions
• Journalism as emotional labour
• Rottweilers savage democracy
• Challenging the media bias
• Politics as emotional labour
• Poor emotional governance
• The four factors of fear
• Terrorism and the emotional public
• From emotional audit to communication strategy
• Market failures
• Deferring to reality.