Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/25:10500015
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11077-025-09586-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11077-025-09586-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11077-025-09586-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11077-025-09586-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis
Original language description
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces the concept of political emotions - emotions shaped by and embedded in power relations, interests, values, and the interplay between rationality and affect - to argue that analyzing more carefully how emotions are framed in policy debates is essential for addressing polarized policy-making around the climate crisis and beyond. By foregrounding political emotions as a conceptual and analytical tool, we can uncover how they intersect with policy narratives, revealing the deep connections between the climate crisis and broader issues of justice and exclusion. Moreover, we can show how engaging with political emotions in the analysis of policy debates can help bridge communication and trust gaps between policymakers and citizens, highlighting the need for a more nuanced emotional engagement in public discourse. To advance this understanding, we propose a multi-perspective and interdisciplinary approach to political emotions, bringing together valuable insights from sociology, political science, and communication studies. We see such an endeavor as a continuation of Harold Lasswell's original vision for the policy sciences; one that is empirically grounded, normatively aware, and publicly engaged. We aim to offer a conceptual and analytical toolkit for policymakers, civil society actors, and social movements navigating the emotionally charged terrain of the climate crisis and contemporary policy conflicts.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50602 - Public administration
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Policy Sciences
ISSN
0032-2687
e-ISSN
1573-0891
Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
601-617
UT code for WoS article
001540373200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105012303722