Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices

The aim of this paper is to discuss the emotional plane in the context of the formation of leadership asymmetry, especially the instrumental use of grudge and resentment by a leader in the process of political leadership. The starting point to explaining the instrumentalisation of the affective sph...

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Autor principal:	Filip Pierzchalski
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Lenguaje:	EN PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	political leadership class resentment ressentiment negative emotions political emotions collective emotions Law K Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d201b6dacd5645ebbac4e8cc9b9184c32021-11-27T13:11:10ZClass Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices10.12797/Politeja.17.2020.68.031733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/d201b6dacd5645ebbac4e8cc9b9184c32021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/2789https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The aim of this paper is to discuss the emotional plane in the context of the formation of leadership asymmetry, especially the instrumental use of grudge and resentment by a leader in the process of political leadership. The starting point to explaining the instrumentalisation of the affective sphere in politics, interpreted as a source of political leadership, will be the critical argumentation in relation to the assumptions of the theory of rational choice about the stability and predictability of political process. This article attempts a critical look at the rationality of leadership practices in politics, where it is emphasized that the individual and collective structures – including collective identities – of beliefs on which the leadership process is formed, consolidated and based, are not permanent, but increasingly dependent on irrational manipulative strategies. Hence, this paper will analyse the mechanism of creating or reactivating negative emotions by the leader in a given cultural and structural environment as the reasons for the emergence and legitimacy of supra-individual resentment or the functioning of class resentment, which translates into the escalation of hostility in a stratified society, as well as into followers’ receptivity; more broadly – into the form and shape of effective political leadership. Filip PierzchalskiKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlepolitical leadershipclass resentmentressentimentnegative emotionspolitical emotionscollective emotionsLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 17, Iss 5(68) (2021)
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description	The aim of this paper is to discuss the emotional plane in the context of the formation of leadership asymmetry, especially the instrumental use of grudge and resentment by a leader in the process of political leadership. The starting point to explaining the instrumentalisation of the affective sphere in politics, interpreted as a source of political leadership, will be the critical argumentation in relation to the assumptions of the theory of rational choice about the stability and predictability of political process. This article attempts a critical look at the rationality of leadership practices in politics, where it is emphasized that the individual and collective structures – including collective identities – of beliefs on which the leadership process is formed, consolidated and based, are not permanent, but increasingly dependent on irrational manipulative strategies. Hence, this paper will analyse the mechanism of creating or reactivating negative emotions by the leader in a given cultural and structural environment as the reasons for the emergence and legitimacy of supra-individual resentment or the functioning of class resentment, which translates into the escalation of hostility in a stratified society, as well as into followers’ receptivity; more broadly – into the form and shape of effective political leadership.
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title	Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices
title_short	Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices
title_full	Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices
title_fullStr	Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices
title_full_unstemmed	Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices
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Class Resentment and Leadership: Manipulation of Negative Emotions in Political Leadership Practices

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