Stephen Coleman, Ph.D.

I am a Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds. I have written ten published books and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.

4 posts

Feeling It/Not Feeling It: Mood Stories as Accounts of Political Intuition

by Stephen Coleman, Ph.D. in Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman Apr 4, 2023 — 4 min read

As political scholars move beyond overwhelmingly cognitivist and rationalist accounts of political behaviour and attend to the aﬀective conditions that frame it, there remains a conspicuous lack of consensus about how to describe distinctive aﬀective phenomena.

Moods as Forms of Political Meaning

by Stephen Coleman, Ph.D. in Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman Mar 16, 2023 — 5 min read

The working of the market can be represented in descriptive terms, but beyond such empirical representation lies an aﬀective ‘horizon that … can never come into view as such’