European Political Leaders And The Social Representation Of The Covid19 Crisis Flaminia Sacc by Flaminia Saccà, Donatella Selva 9783031383793, 3031383796 instant download after payment.

European leaders have faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management and relationship-building between all the actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic has also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the political scene. This complex circumstance required to adopt a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in Political Sociology and Communication Studies. To address these issues, the book analyses the communication and leadership style 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. Then it 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 represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes.