What do a mayor, a deputy mayor, a magistrate, a governor and a regional president have in common? Alain Faure conducted interviews with several hundred local elected officials in France, Italy, Canada and Japan to better understand the role of emotions in the exercise of power. He explores their wounds, their enthusiasms and their blind spots, and maps how these emotions operate across different roles—such as the emergency responder, the scapegoat or the pastor—in which elected officials become hyper-mediators at the crossroads of painful passions and the grandeur of politics.
Alain Faure is a CNRS Research Director. He has just published a short Essay on Intense Emotions in Politics with Presses universitaires de Grenoble (PUG), as part of the free digital research series Virus XXL.
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Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
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