EMOTIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
ÉRZELMEK ÉS POLITIKATUDOMÁNY

Summary/Abstract: Although emotions have always been present in politics, political science and political theory tend not to deal with them, not to study their role in political processes. Recently more and more studies have started to advance what is sometimes called the affective or emotional turn of social sciences in general, and in political science in particular. The paper fi rst gives an overview of the traditional and still prevailing approaches to emotions. Then, after summing up the probable background of the emotional turn, it will map the recent efforts to revaluate the status and importanc of emotions in politics and political science. A short introduction into the affective paradigm (George E. Marcus), the action theory and identity theory approaches (Jack Barbalet and Mabel Berezin) and the emotions management approach (Philippe Braud) as well as the political movement analyses may help notice new aspects of political developments.

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