Politics and Emotions The Obama Phenomenon /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Engelken-Jorge, Marcos (Editor), Güell, Pedro Ibarra (Editor), del Río, Carmelo Moreno (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011.
• Subjects: Political science.; Political communication.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Communication.; Political Science.

Mainstream liberal narratives have often depicted politics as a matter of power and competing interests, disregarding emotions or conceiving them as threats to a rational and well-ordered society. In the last decades, however, this viewpoint has been increasingly challenged by a number of scholars r...