Description: Organized around five key themes, this accessible introduction offers a thorough survey of the affective turn in contemporary political science.
Brief description: Simon Thompson is a Reader in Political Theory in the Department of Politics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. His research interests include the politics of recognition, deliberative democracy, and the politics of multiculturalism. He is the author of The Political Theory of Recognition (Polity Press, 2006) and co-editor of Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Emotions, Politics and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Review Quotes: [Politics and the Emotions] covers a wide terrain ... [The book] successfully questions the axiom that reasoned argument leads to good policymaking.
Australian Review of Public Affairs