Governing under Pressure? The Mental Wellbeing of Politicians
Governing under Pressure? The Mental Wellbeing of Politicians
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DOI：
10.1093/pa/gsy046
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Kwiatkowski, Richard
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作者：
Flinders, Matthew;Weinberg, Ashley;Kwiatkowski, Richard
尽管国家政治家在制定立法、代表选民和向政府问责方面的工作极为重要，但在他们的福利和心理健康方面所做的工作相对较少。影响政治家的压力因素既有独特的，也有普遍的；忽视这些问题会对这些个人和更广泛的民主产生深远的影响。我们提出了一个“压力源分类学”作为进一步跨学科和比较研究的起点，并认为它为有关代议制民主未来的更广泛的辩论提供了分析杠杆。
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.