The Politics of Emotions, Candidates, and Choices

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2. Vindicating the Emotional Citizen

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3. The Marketplace of Emotions

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4. Mission Accomplished: The Reelection of George W. Bush

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5. The New Politics of Hope and Change

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6. Renewed Awareness: Perspectives on Gender and Race

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7. Hope Is a Renewable Resource

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8. Conclusion: The Politics of Emotions, Campaigns, and Looking Ahead

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9. Back Matter

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Anchored in the idea that political campaigns matter to electoral outcomes, The Politics of Emotions, Candidates and Choices analyzes the dynamics of emotional voting and decision-making over the course of three presidential elections between 2004 and 2012.  Each presidential campaign reflects a unique tone and mood, which influences voters’ perceptions of choices and candidate image. Accounting for the idiosyncratic nature of a campaign environment and a candidate’s message, this analysis isolates specific emotional dimensions that were influential on voters’ appraisals of specific campaign issues. Relying on the Affective Intelligence theory and the Transfer-of-Affect thesis to narrate the causal relationships between voters’ emotional responses and issue appraisals, this book illustrates the specific electoral contexts when voters’ emotions are trusted as political knowledge and transferred to their beliefs about certain policies.

• Emotions in political campaigns
• presidential elections
• election 2004
• election 2008
• election 2012
• George W. Bush
• John Kerry
• Barack Obama
• John McCain
• Hillary Clinton
• Sarah Palin
• Mitt Romney
• Women in politics
• Race in politics
• political campaigns
• us politics
• democracy

     

• University of Central Arkansas, Conway, USA

  Heather E. Yates

Heather E. Yates is Assistant Professor of American Politics at the University of Central Arkansas, USA. She specializes in political behavior research that addresses questions involving campaigns and elections, interest groups, identity politics and especially, women in politics.  Dr. Yates has co-authored research with her advisor, Dr. Allan Cigler, on pre-reform era Interest Groups strategies.     

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