Symbolic Policy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Public Policy
ISBN-10
1009290959
ISBN-13
9781009290951
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 2nd, 2025
Print length
82 Pages
Weight
132 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.90 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Political economy
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This Element explores the role of symbols in politics, highlighting their significance in shaping citizens' representations and influencing policy decisions. It uses crisis management to analyze symbolic dimensions, in two case studies. It also highlights how politicians use symbols, influenced by timing, national repertoires, and leader personas.
Symbols are everywhere in politics. Yet, they tended to be overlooked in the study of public policy. This book shows how they play an important role in the policy process, in shaping citizens'' representations thanks to their ability to combine meanings and to stimulate emotional reactions. We use crisis management as a lens through which we analyse this symbolic dimension, and we focus on two case studies (governmental responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Europe in 2020 and to terrorist attacks in France in 2015). We show how the symbolic enables leaders to claim legitimacy for themselves and their decisions, and foster feelings of reassurance, solidarity and belonging. All politicians use the symbolic, whether consciously or otherwise, but what they choose to do varies and is affected by timing, the existence of national repertoires of symbolic actions and the personas of leaders.
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