Engelken-Jorge / Güell / Rio Politics and Emotions

The Obama Phenomenon
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-531-93201-9
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 191 Seiten, eBook

Marcos Engelken-Jorge is postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Basque Country.
Pedro Ibarra Güell is a former professor of political science at the University of the Basque Country and member of the research group Parte Hartuz.
Carmelo Moreno del Río is associate professor of political science at the University of the Basque Country.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engelken-Jorge, Marcos

Güell, Pedro Ibarra

Rio, Carmelo Moreno del

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Politics & Emotions: An Overview;7
2.1;Have emotions been marginalized in Western Tradition?;8
2.2;Controversies Revolving around the Concept of Emotion;11
2.3;Areas of Research;16
2.4;Emotions and Research Methods;21
2.5;The Book;22
2.6;References;23
3;Emotions & Contemporary Political Theory;26
3.1;The Political Mind and Its Other;27
3.1.1;The Semiotic Structure of the Reason / Passion Dichotomy;30
3.1.2;Hyperrationality and the Theoretical Exclusion of Emotion in Mainstream Political Theory;35
3.1.3;The Contemporary Critique of the Reason/Passion Dichotomy: From Neuroscience to Philosophy and the Social Sciences;41
3.1.4;The Return of Passions to Political Theory;53
3.1.5;References;64
4;Methodological Issues;69
4.1;The Influence of Affective States on the Depth of Information Processing;70
4.1.1;Emotion and Affect;71
4.1.2;Information Processing;72
4.1.3;The Direct Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Behaviors and Judgments;73
4.1.4;Understanding the Direct Influence of Affect;74
4.1.5;The Indirect Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Information Processing;75
4.1.6;The Bipolar Conceptualization of Affect;76
4.1.7;Understanding the Differential Influence of Positive and Negative Affect;77
4.1.8;The Discrete Emotion Conceptualization of Affective States;79
4.1.9;Understanding the Differential Influence of Discrete Emotions of the Same Valence;82
4.1.10;Issues of Measurement;83
4.1.11;Future Directions and Conclusions;85
4.1.12;References;87
4.2;Barack Obama and the Political Science of Hope;92
4.2.1;Barack Obama and the ‘Politics of Hope’;92
4.2.2;What is Hope? Defining the Concept;93
4.2.3;A Little of What We Know So Far about Positive Political Emotions;96
4.2.4;A Political Science of Hope;97
4.2.4.1;Hope and Campaign Rhetoric;98
4.2.4.2;Hope and Voters;99
4.2.4.3;Hope and Staffers, Volunteers, and Activists;99
4.2.5;A Note on Measuring and Testing ‘Political Hope’;100
4.2.6;An Agenda for Political Hope;101
4.2.7;References;102
5;Perspectives on Politics & Emotions The Obama Phenomenon;104
5.1;Suspending Disbelief;105
5.1.1;Emotions in Political Communication;106
5.1.2;The Medium is the Message: Emotional Architectures of Meaning4;108
5.1.3;The Intimate Crowd;112
5.1.4;Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief;115
5.1.5;References;121
5.2;Persuading the Intractable;125
5.2.1;Obama and ‘Change’;125
5.2.2;Political Communicators;126
5.2.3;Emotions, Identity and Politics;127
5.2.4;Discourse and Emotional Engagement;130
5.2.5;Emotion and Political Concepts;131
5.2.6;The Political Masses and Empathy;132
5.2.7;Emotion and Transference;133
5.2.8;‘Real’ and ‘False’ Rhetoric and Actions;134
5.2.9;What Next for the ‘Now’ Agenda?;135
5.2.10;References;136
5.3;"I’m Still Standing fo Hope and Glory!";137
5.3.1;Emotional Politics;137
5.3.2;The Politics of Resentment;141
5.3.3;The Politics of Cosmopolitanism;143
5.3.4;Conclusion;147
5.3.5;References;148
5.4;Desiring Politics;150
5.4.1;Hope in 1992;152
5.4.2;Enthusiasm, Apathy, and the Ineloquence of the Political;156
5.4.3;Hope, Now;160
5.4.4;Hope and (Some) Leftists;164
5.4.5;Hope and Its Doings;167
5.4.6;Is Hope Fading Fast?;172
5.4.7;Capacities, Potentialities, Openings;175
5.4.8;References;178
6;About the Authors ;184

Über Autor(innen)

Marcos Engelken-Jorge is postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Basque Country. Pedro Ibarra Güell is a former professor of political science at the University of the Basque Country and member of the research group Parte Hartuz. Carmelo Moreno del Río is associate professor of political science at the University of the Basque Country.