81772 - Leadership in Contemporary Democracies

Academic Year 2021/2022

Course contents

 

- Leaders and leadership in contemporary democracies

- The leader and the followers: charisma and soft power, transactional and transformative leadership

- The personnalisation of politics and the “audience democracy”

- The mediatisation of politics

- Leaders' storytelling, mediatisation of politics and political marketing

- The public opinion

- Public opinion and leadership

- Public opinion and media

- Populism, leadership and the mediatisation of politics

Readings/Bibliography

1) P. Charaudeau, Le charisme comme condition du leadership politique, in «Revue Française des Science de l'information et de la communication», 7/2015.

https://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/1597

2) B. Manin, Principes du gouvernement réprésentatif, Paris, Flammarion, ch. 6, pages 247-302.

3) P.-J. Maarek, La communication et le marketing de l'homme politique, LEXISNEXIS, 4ème édition, 2014 (première partie), pages 9-71.

4) C. Salmon, Storytelling. La machine à fabriquer des histoires et à formater les esprits, Paris, La Dècouverte, 2007, ch. 5, pages 111-140.

5) N. D'Almeida (dir.), L'opinion publique, CNRS Éditions, 2009 (e-book 2019), Présentation général et essais de N. Almeida, D. Reynié, B. Ginsberg, E. Noëlle-Neumann.

Non-attending students must also read: Angela Merkel. L'ovni politique, Les Arénes, 2017.

Teaching methods

Teaching lessons and seminars

Assessment methods

Oral exam (60%).  Participation in class discussions (40 %).

Teaching tools

Power point, video.

Office hours

See the website of Sofia Ventura