LEADER 05104nam 22007215 450 001 9910736025203321 005 20251008153515.0 010 $a9783031383809 010 $a303138380X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-38380-9 035 $a(PPN)28197991X 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30670643 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30670643 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-38380-9 035 $a(CKB)27899964100041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927899964100041 100 $a20230731d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEuropean Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis $eLeading the Pandemic /$fby Flaminia Saccà, Donatella Selva 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology,$x2946-6024 311 08$aPrint version: Saccà, Flaminia European Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031383793 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Introducing women leaders: Merkel and Solberg -- Chapter 3: Angela Merkel?s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 4: Erna Solberg?s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 5: Introducing techno-populist leaders and their alternative: Conte and Macron faced to Sánchez -- Chapter 6: Giuseppe Conte?s approach to the pandemic Chapter 7: Emmanuel Macron?s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 8: Pedro Sánchez?s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 9: The Pandemic Turn: Populist government leaders facing the virus Chapter 10: Boris Johnson?s approach to the pandemic Chapter 11: Viktor Orbán?s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 12: Conclusions. 330 $aEuropean leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the political scene. These complex circumstances required a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in political sociology and communication studies. To address these issues, this book analyses the communication and leadership styles of seven European leaders, grouped into ?political families?. It analyses the cases of Angela Merkel and Erna Solberg to understand if and how female leaderships differentiated from their male counterparts. It then analyses the relationship between techno-populism and professional politics by comparing the cases of Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez.Finally, it focuses on populist leaders Boris Johnson and Victor Orbán, who represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes. Flaminia Saccà is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee ?Sociotechnics-Sociological Practice?; board member of the ESA Political Sociology Research Network; and Director of the Science, Politics and Society Lab. Her latest publications focus on female leadership and gender violence. Donatella Selva is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Communication at the University of Florence, Italy. She works in the field of political communication, media and cultural studies. She has recently published a monograph to explore the relationship between social media, information disorders and the processes of emotionalization of the public sphere. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology,$x2946-6024 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aPolitical leadership 606 $aComparative government 606 $aCommunication in politics 606 $aEuropean Politics 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aPolitical Leadership 606 $aComparative Politics 606 $aPolitical Communication 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aPolitical leadership. 615 0$aComparative government. 615 0$aCommunication in politics. 615 14$aEuropean Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aPolitical Leadership. 615 24$aComparative Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Communication. 676 $a362.19624144 676 $a362.19624144 700 $aSacca?$b Flaminia$0506562 702 $aSelva$b Donatella 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910736025203321 996 $aEuropean Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis$93421580 997 $aUNINA