An expert on rhetoric explains why ‘rizz’ may be more like charm than charisma.
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The current conflict in Ukraine has three key leaders, each of whom uses a different approach to the crisis.
Policy and promises matter, but the way politicians articulate them can be just as important — especially on live television.
Charisma may be a necessary trait for getting elected – but it also discourages voters from independent moral deliberation about a potential leader’s qualifications to govern.
Prevailing patriarchal and cultural norms in some societies prevent women victims of sexual crimes from talking out by shaming them.
Witch-finders of early modern Europe and modern Africa made themselves indispensable by showing people a threat of a growing crisis of threatening evil.
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Religion, Boston University
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Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond
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Professor of Organisational Communication, Massey University
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Director the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technolology, and Education (NCITE) Center, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Organizational Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Reader in Rhetoric, University of Sussex
