US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19
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 subje...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2e571953da74641b7a410f4f4d8e40f2022-12-22T04:04:16ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Social Sciences2331-18862021-01-017110.1080/23311886.2021.19013651901365US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19Daryl V. Watkins0Aaron D. Clevenger1Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityThe 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2021.1901365covid-19coronaviruspandemicresiliencepolitical leadershipcrisis communication |
| spellingShingle | Daryl V. Watkins Aaron D. Clevenger US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 Cogent Social Sciences covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resilience political leadership crisis communication |
| title | US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 |
| title_full | US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 |
| title_short | US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During COVID-19 |
| title_sort | us political leadership and crisis communication during covid 19 |
| topic | covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resilience political leadership crisis communication |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2021.1901365 |
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