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US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19
- Source :
- Cogent Social Sciences, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- The research explored the role of political leadership in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The researchers conducted a political discourse analysis on 239 transcripts from the press briefings of President Trump and seven U.S. governors to determine the extent to which the research subjects used effective crisis leadership and communication. These results suggest that President Trump and Governors DeSantis, DeWine, Ducey, and Ivey are particularly vulnerable to political fallout for their handling of COVID-19 because stakeholders might view them as inattentive to the crisis and ineffective in their policy responses. Governors Cuomo, Newsom, and Whitmer may be in a better position to avoid fallout due to their information-seeking, hands-on approaches, which some will deem as competent and appropriate to the threat (although others may see their efforts as over-controlling). The research demonstrated how discourse analysis could predict political behaviors and blame assignment for crisis responses.
- Subjects :
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic
Discourse analysis
05 social sciences
coronavirus
Social Sciences
General Social Sciences
Political leadership
political leadership
medicine.disease_cause
Politics
covid-19
Political economy
Political science
0502 economics and business
Pandemic
medicine
050211 marketing
crisis communication
Resilience (network)
resilience
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Crisis communication
Coronavirus
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23311886
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cogent Social Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d289cd0c39466fb82cee1bdf0c39531a