Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction and overview 1
4. Section 1. Different politicians’ communicative strategies of presenting their pandemic management
5. How Scandinavian political leaders appealed to cognitive or affective-based trust during the Covid-19 pandemic 20
6. Political speeches as a tool of Covid19 crisis management? 44
7. Linguistic strategies to present complexity in a time of crisis 75
8. The ‘Covid-19 presidential genre’ 102
9. Section 2. Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure, and diverting one’s course
10. Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context 136
11. Shambolic blunder 169
12. Top-down meets bottom-up 196
13. Section 3. Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic for other purposes
14. The social media campaign for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 230
15. Trump’s framing of Covid-19 as a war and conspiracy theories 256
16. Exploiting the crisis 276
17. Index 299