# Symbolic Policy
**Date de l'événement :** 06/12/2024
* Publié le 06/12/2024

### Date
06/12/2024

### Auteur
**[Laurie Boussaguet](https://conference.sciencespo.fr/structure/laurie-boussaguet_63FwiNUU71XGT2Oh7IuK)** 
**[Florence Faucher](https://conference.sciencespo.fr/structure/florence-faucher_kM14wO8lD0EZ3eHNqRGp)** 


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## Chapô
**Symbols are everywhere in politics. Yet, they tended to be overlooked in the study of public policy. What is the role of symbols in the policy process? Why is it important to consider them? How do you study symbolic policy?** 

**Video interview with Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher, who recently published _Symbolic Policy_ (Cambridge University Press, 2025), produced by Véronique Etienne (CEE).**

## Corps du texte
In this book, Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher demonstrate how symbols shape citizens' representations thanks to their ability to combine meanings and to stimulate emotional reactions. Using crisis management as their analytical lens, they focus on two case studies: governmental responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Europe in 2020 and to terrorist attacks in France in 2015.

The authors show how the symbolic enables leaders to claim legitimacy for themselves and their decisions, while fostering feelings of reassurance, solidarity, and belonging. All politicians use the symbolic, whether consciously or otherwise, but what they choose to do varies and is affected by timing, the existence of national repertoires of symbolic actions and the personas of leaders.

**Vidéos / Audios embarqués :**
[Vidéo 1](https://youtu.be/k-MH7jvrp4U) 

**Licence :** `#CC-BY-ND (Attribution, Pas de modification)` 

### Thématique
`#Démocratie` 

**Langue :** `#Anglais` 



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