Governing under pressure : the mental well-being of politicians

Flinders, M, Weinberg, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4676-4677, Weinberg, J., Geddes, M and Kwiatkowski, R 2020, 'Governing under pressure : the mental well-being of politicians' , Parliamentary Affairs, 73 (2) , pp. 253-273.

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Abstract

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-à-vis a far broader set of debates concerning the future of representative democracy.

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