A study or paper · 1968 · Politics
Charisma as a measurable asset
Research on why some political candidates reliably produce personal attachment and others do not, despite comparable policy positions.
If charisma is a real and learnable thing, then attachment to public figures is manipulable by design, and the manipulation is not a side effect of the work.
Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.
Manipulation. One-sided attachment engineered for somebody else's benefit. Paid intimacy, parasocial persuasion, sasaeng, grief extraction, the streak. The lane that pays the bills and the lane that causes the most harm, frequently at the same time.
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1950 1950-1999 · 1968 1999
Provenance · 2 source record(s)
- unverifiedThe classical account of charisma as a political asset, and of its built-in instability: Weber's charismatic authority rests on devotion to the exceptional person rather than on rules or office, which is precisely why it cannot be institutionalised without being transformedWeber, M. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (posthumous, 1922; G. Roth & C. Wittich, Eds., University of California Press, 1968), on charismatic authority and its routinisation. ↗
- unverifiedWeber's warning is the useful part for this site: charisma is understood to be unstable and to require routinisation into something impersonal, which is the same bargain described here from the other endWeber, M. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (posthumous, 1922; G. Roth & C. Wittich, Eds., University of California Press, 1968). ↗
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