Abstract

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.

摘要

该研究探讨了政治领导在应对新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）中的作用。研究人员对特朗普总统和七个美国州长的新闻发布会上的239个笔录进行了政治话语分析，以确定研究对象在多大程度上有效地利用了危机的领导能力和沟通能力。这些结果表明，特朗普总统和州长DeSantis，DeWine，Ducey和Ivey因处理COVID-19而特别容易受到政治影响，因为利益相关者可能认为他们对危机无动于衷，对政策的反应无效。州长Cuomo，Newsom和Whitmer可能会处于更好的位置，可以避免因信息寻求，动手实践而产生的后果，有些人会认为它胜任并适当应对了威胁（尽管其他人可能将他们的努力视为过度控制）。研究表明，话语分析如何预测政治行为和应对危机的责任归属。