@article{1472228,
      recid = {1472228},
      author = {Saccà, Flaminia. and Selva, Donatella.},
      title = {European political leaders and the social representation  of the Covid-19 crisis : leading the pandemic /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {European 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 Orbn,  who represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes.  Flaminia Sacc 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1472228},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38380-9},
}