The rhetoric of the President of the European Commission: charismatic leader or neutral mediator?

Olsson, Eva‐Karin; Hammargård, Kajsa

doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1054298

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“…). Recently this theoretical framework has also been applied to the case of the euro crisis in order to appraise the charismatic rhetoric and leadership of the President of the European Commission (Olsson & Hammargård ). In the remainder of the article we will further extend this language‐based approach to measure the presence of charisma in the crisis leadership of the ECB.…”

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“…; Bligh & Robinson ; Davis & Gardner ; Bastardoz et al. ; Olsson & Hammargård ), we have analysed the corpus of ECB speeches by combining DICTION variables into seven composite constructs, building on the linguistic characteristics of charisma listed in the previous section. Table summarises the seven constructs and the corresponding formulas of DICTION variables, along with sample words for each variable and text examples extracted from various ECB presidential speeches…”

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“…, ; Davis & Gardner ; Schroedel et al. ; Olsson & Hammargård ), relies on univariate and multivariate analyses of co‐variance (ANCOVA and MANCOVA), two techniques for testing the significance of mean differences in a dependent variable of interest (in our case, charismatic language) across samples, while also controlling for a number of factors (covariates) that might be related to that variable. In recent years a part of the charisma scholarship has moved away from the analysis of covariance to propose the regression discontinuity design (RDD) as an alternative method (e.g., Antonakis et al.…”

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“…(), Bligh and Robinson (), and Davis and Gardner () include an eighth construct, labelled ‘values/moral justification’. Similar to the more recent study by Olsson and Hammargård (), we limit our analysis to seven constructs following the removal of the variables making up the values/moral justification construct from the latest version of DICTION.…”

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Abstract. There is little doubt that the European Central Bank (ECB), and in particular its presidency, has taken the lead in tackling the euro crisis. But can this leadership be also characterised as charismatic? This article answers the question by focusing on language -a key component as well as a reliable indicator of charisma. By means of a software-assisted content analysis of the entire corpus of ECB presidential speeches, it is found that the crisis has indeed led to the emergence of the Bank's presidency as a charismatic euro leader. This in turn confirms the recent politicisation of the ECB, but at the same time might be seen as mitigating the problems related to the Bank's democratic deficit, to the extent that charisma can be seen, from a Weberian standpoint, as an alternative source of political legitimacy.

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“…This article focuses on one such international organisation—the European Union—to assess this very question. While the EU has received some scholarly crisis management attention (e.g., Attinà, Boin, & Ekengren, ; Boin, Ekengren, et al., ; Hollis, ; Morsut, ; Olsson & Hammargård, ), two developments of late require a reassessment of our understanding of supranational crisis management. First, how scholars assess the politico‐administrative requirements of modern transboundary crisis management has changed.…”

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This article draws on a comprehensive new data set of crisis management capacities at the European Union level to highlight key patterns in their development and use. Organised within the categories of detection, sense‐making, decision‐making, coordination, meaning‐making, communication, and accountability, the data show considerable accumulation of capacities in detection and sense‐making, while decision‐making capacities lag behind. We find that most capacities are sector‐oriented rather than cross‐sectoral, and reside primarily within the European Commission rather than other EU institutions. Comparing the data to previous studies, we note that capacities overall are increasing and some are undergoing evolution; for example, horizon‐scanning tools once limited to collecting information have increasingly been given an analytical, “information enrichment” function akin to sense‐making.

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Compliance with EU Law and Argumentative Discourse: Representing the EU as a Problem-Solving Multilevel Governance System through Discursive Structures of Argumentation

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This paper analyzes how, during the Juncker Presidency (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019), the European Commission employed argumentative strategies to address the question of memberstates' compliance with European Union (EU) law. There is a literature gap regarding how European leaders employ argumentative strategies to coax member-states to comply with EU legislation and how those strategies can be associated with multilevel governance designs and problem-solving approaches. Building on van Eemeren and Grootendorst's (A systematic theory of argumentation. The Pragma-dialectical approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004) pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation, the paper explores what dialectical and rhetorical strategies were employed by the Juncker European Commission to build an argumentative regime where the question of compliance with European Union law is articulated with the representation of the European Union as an efficient multilevel governance system. Starting from the distinction between procedural and operational concepts of problem-solving in multilevel governance polities (Maggetti in Public Administration 97:355-369, 2019), the paper questions whether the Juncker Commission's arguments on the need to ensure European Union law compliance favor a particular conception of problem-solving in multilevel governance systems. The paper argues that the argumentative strategies employed by the Juncker European Commission in the field of compliance reveal a preference for an operational notion of problemsolving combined with some aspects of a more procedural perspective of problemsolving in multilevel governance polities. The background of this paper is associated with the growing impact that European legislation has on member-states and also with the efforts developed by the Juncker European Commission in discussing how to improve EU regulation to increase compliance with EU law.

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The rhetoric of the President of the European Commission: charismatic leader or neutral mediator?

Cited by 13 publications

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The charismatic leadership of the ECB presidency: A language‐based analysis

The charismatic leadership of the ECB presidency: A language‐based analysis

The European Union's capacities for managing crises

Compliance with EU Law and Argumentative Discourse: Representing the EU as a Problem-Solving Multilevel Governance System through Discursive Structures of Argumentation

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