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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255305003321

Autore

Yates Heather E

Titolo

The Politics of Emotions, Candidates, and Choices [[electronic resource] /] / by Heather E. Yates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-51527-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

324.973

Soggetti

Elections

United States—Politics and government

Democracy

Electoral Politics

US Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction Vindicating the Emotional Citizen  -- Chapter 1 The Marketplace of Emotions  -- Chapter 2 Mission Accomplished-The Reelection of George W. Bush  -- Chapter 3 The New Politics of Hope and Change  -- Chapter 4 Renewed Awareness: perspectives on gender and race  -- Chapter 5 Hope is a Renewable Resource  -- Chapter 6 The Politics of Emotions, Campaigns and Looking Ahead  -- Bibliography. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book dynamically shows that political campaigns matter to electoral outcomes, by analyzing the dynamics of emotional voter and decision-making over the course of three presidential elections between 2004 and 2012. Each presidential campaign reflects a unique tone and electoral mood, which influences voters’ perceptions of electoral choices and a candidate’s image. Controlling for the idiosyncratic nature of a campaign environment and a candidate’s message, this analysis isolates specific emotional dimensions that were influential on voters’ appraisals of specific campaign issues. Relying on the Affective Intelligence theory and the Transfer-of-Affect thesis to narrative the causal relationships between voters’ emotional responses and issue appraisals, the author illustrates specific contexts where



voters’ emotional responses toward presidential candidates are interpreted as trusted political cues and therefore, get transferred to their beliefs about certain policies. .