How faces shape politics 2

As Veronika mentioned previously, faces shapes politics. Indeed, faces in politics are nowadays hugely important for any political processes and maybe rather more than actual policies and political parties.





Here's the link of an article that threat on that subject. According to the author, "in theory, politics may be a reasoned contest of ideas, but in practice, it is an emotive contest of personalities. Appearance matters in the impressions we form of candidates, and the face perhaps most of all."




The media are obvious sources of this phenomenon as they usually put emphasis on emotions and personalities. I personally think that politics has been shaped by our interconnected society of endless information exploited by the media. And the result of this leads us to wonder the effectiveness and legitimacy of political bodies.

Nevertheless, this article also regroups a number of studies that demonstrates how appearances are one of the primary concerns that political personalities.

The author concluded by quoting Machiavelli: "“men in general judge more from appearances than from reality”. 

https://theconversation.com/a-face-for-politics-do-our-leaders-looks-influence-our-votes-17068