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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338028403321

Autore

Yates Heather E

Titolo

The Politics of Spectacle and Emotion in the 2016 Presidential Campaign / / by Heather E. Yates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-15804-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in US Elections, , 2731-6793

Disciplina

324.9730932

Soggetti

America - Politics and government

Elections

Political sociology

Communication in politics

American Politics

Electoral Politics

Political Sociology

Political Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Why Emotions Matter in Politics -- 2. The Year of 'Democrazy' and The Politics of Spectacle -- 3. The Politics of ‘America First’: Problematizing the Economy and Trade on The Campaign Tail -- 4. The Health of a Nation: The Politics and Legacy of Health Care Reform -- 5. Neo-Nativism and Global Frienemies: Feelings Toward Immigration and National Security Issues -- 6. God, Guns, and Bathrooms: Concepts of Morality on the Campaign Trail -- 7. Conclusion: The Campaign of Personalized Conflict.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the highly emotional context of the 2016 US presidential campaign through the scope of political theater and emotional attribution. It takes inventory of the political landscape that defined the campaign and advances the argument that the campaign’s high intensity generated a more interest-attentive citizenry and became an exercise in political theater. A framework operationalizing the components of political spectacle anchors the analysis treating



emotions, affect transfer and the rise of negative partisanship. The analytical scope is focused specifically on voters’ emotional responses toward Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and empirically demonstrates the effects of discrete feelings on five emotional dimensions including pride, hope, fear, anger, and disgust on attitudes about issues ranging from the economy to immigration to the 2016 Supreme Court vacancy. Anchored in the Affective Intelligence Theory and affect transfer, the findings lend support to the principles of negative partisanship that characterized the 2016 presidential contest.