Constructing Crisis: Leaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency

by Bert Spector

There is no such thing as a crisis. Rather than an actual, corporeal thing, a crisis is a claim asserted from a position of power and influence, intended to shape the understanding of others. A constructed crisis by a leader may or may not be legitimate, and, legitimate or not, the content of a claim alone does not determine whether people decide to believe it. Rather than viewing crises as the result of objective events, Spector demonstrates that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108427359
• ISBN13: 9781108427357
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"