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Women Political Leaders and the Media PalgraveStudiesinPoliticalLeadership Serieseditors: LUDGERHELMS,ProfessorandChairofComparativePolitics,Universityof Innsbruck,Austria ROBERTELGIE,PaddyMoriartyProfessorofGovernmentandInternational Studies,DublinCityUniversity,RepublicofIreland TAKASHI INOGUCHI, Professor Emeritus, Universities of Tokyo & Niigata Prefecture,Japan BARBARA KELLERMAN, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership, CentreforPublicLeadership,KennedySchool,HarvardUniversity,USA GILLIANPEELE,FellowandTutorinPolitics,UniversityofOxford,UK BERT A. ROCKMAN, Professor and Head of Department, Department of PoliticalScience,PurdueUniversity,USA Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership seeks to gather some of the best work onpoliticalleadershipbroadlydefined,stretchingfromclassicareassuchas executive,legislativeandpartyleadershiptounderstudiedmanifestationsof politicalleadershipbeyondthestate.Editedbyaninternationalboardofdis- tinguished leadership scholars from the United States, Europe and Asia, the seriespublishescutting-edgeresearchthatreachesouttoaglobalreadership. Titlesinclude: MarkBennister PRIMEMINISTERSINPOWER PoliticalLeadershipinBritainandAustralia DonatellaCampus WOMENPOLITICALLEADERSANDTHEMEDIA LudgerHelms(editor) COMPARATIVEPOLITICALLEADERSHIP KevinTheakstonandJoukedeVries(editors) FORMERLEADERSINMODERNDEMOCRACIES PoliticalSunsets PalgraveStudiesinPoliticalLeadership SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–1–137–02484–8(hardback)and 978–1–137–02485–5(paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacinga standingorder.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writeto usattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesand theISBNsquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England Women Political Leaders and the Media Donatella Campus AssociateProfessorofPoliticalScience,UniversityofBologna ©DonatellaCampus2013 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby CPIAntonyRowe,ChippenhamandEastbourne Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 GenderandModelsofLeadership 10 Power:Amaleconcept? 10 Thefemalestyleofleadership 14 Transformationalleadership 18 2 TheMediaandRepresentationofLeadership 22 Themediatizationandpersonalizationofpolitics 22 Popularcultureandleadership 28 Newmedia,newleaders? 31 3 MediaCoverageofWomenLeaders 39 Visibility:Quantityandqualityofcoverage ofwomenleaders 39 Takingcareandcleaningup:Lightsandshadows ofthepositivestereotypes 44 Viabilityandthehorserace:Arethemediaeducating futurefemaleleaders? 50 4 TheDoubleBind 54 Thenatureofthefemininity-competencedoublebind 54 IronLadiesandmothersofthenation 60 Whenwomenleadersaretoofeminine:Thecase ofSégolèneRoyal 65 Whenwomenleadersaretoostrong:Thecase ofHillaryClinton 69 5 TheAppearanceofPower 73 Womenleadersandthepersonalfactor 73 Thedresscodeofwomenleaders 82 Powerandseduction 88 v vi Contents 6 TheFamilyFactor 94 Thegoodwifeandthegoodmother 94 Goingpersonalforwomenleaders 98 Dynasticpolitics:Whendaughtersandwives enterpolitics 104 7 Conclusion:InSearchofaNewStyleofPolitical Leadership 111 Thecrisisoftraditionaldemocraticleadership 111 Timefordegenderingleadership 115 Mediaasagentsoftransformation 120 Notes 126 References 129 Index 142 Acknowledgments The book has its origins in a paper I presented at the 31st Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychol- ogy in July 2008 in Paris. The content of the paper, titled “Women RunningforPresident:FemaleLeadersandCampaigning,”ispartially reproducedinchapters3and4.Ifoundthetopicsointerestingand stimulating that I decided to organize a seminar on female leader- ship and media at the University of Bologna, held on 13 November 2009(proceedingsoftheconferencehavebeenpublishedinItalianin Campus (2010c)). I am indebted to all those who presented papers, the discussants, and the participants for their invaluable contribu- tions.Thisbookgrewoutofmanyofthereflectionsandsuggestions theyadvancedonthatoccasion.IwouldliketothankAmber Stone GalileeatPalgraveMacmillan,whoworkedwithmeonthisproject, and to the anonymous referee for precious comments. I also thank TomFinneganforeditorialassistanceinpreparingthemanuscript. vii This page intentionally left blank Introduction Theavailableliteratureonfemalepoliticalleadershipshowsalimited amount of research. There are a few analyses of some particular women, but, partly due to the paucity of female national leaders, gender-specific studies of political leadership are still rare, especially if we limit our focus to presidents and chief executives.1 Moreover, itshouldbeobservedthattheprevailingtrendinstudiesofpolitical leadershiphasbeenthatofanalyzingtheissuewithoutpayinggreat attentiontogenderdifferences.2 Recent electoral success of women leaders such as Angela Merkel in Germany, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Christina Kirchner in Argentina, and Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, and the candidacies of SégolèneRoyalinFranceandHillaryClintonintheU.S.representan exciting novelty. The number of women political leaders is growing ontheinternationalstage,withseveralexamplesalsoindeveloping countries.Womeninpowerremainasmallclub,buttheycannotany longerberegardedastrueexceptions.Asaconsequence,theissueof female political leadership is especially topical and deserves further discussionandinvestigation. If gender is an important factor in interpreting the nature and the scope of contemporary democratic leadership, a key issue is the relationship between women leaders and the media. An important sourceofinspirationforthisbookhasbeenKathleenHallJamieson, whoseBeyondtheDoubleBind:WomenandLeadership(1995)provides a framework for understanding how far stereotypes and the media’s useofthemmayworkagainstwomeninpolitics.Thereisalargebody of literature on media treatment of women candidates’ campaigns 1
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