Governing under Pressure?: The Mental Wellbeing of Politicians

Matthew Flinders ^[1] ; Ashley Weinberg ^[2] ; James Weinberg ^[1] ; Marc Geddes ^[3] ; Richard Kwiatkowsk ^[4]
1. [1] University of Sheffield
  
  University of Sheffield
  
  Reino Unido
2. [2] University of Salford
  
  University of Salford
  
  Reino Unido
3. [3] University of Edinburgh
  
  University of Edinburgh
  
  Reino Unido
4. [4] Cranfield University
  
  Cranfield University
  
  Cranfield, Reino Unido
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Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 73, Nº 2, 2020, págs. 253-273
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Despite the singular importance of the work of national politicians in creating legislation, representing constituents and holding government to account, relatively little work has been done concerning their wellbeing and psychological health. There are unique, as well as universal, stressors that impact upon politicians; a neglect of these issues has profound consequences for those individuals and wider democracy. We propose a ‘taxonomy of stressors’ as a starting point for further inter-disciplinary and comparative research, and argue that it offers analytical leverage vis-a`-vis a far broader set of debates concerning the future of representative democracy