Crisis Leadership and Moral Rhetoric Following an Invasion: Zelenskyy, Bush, and Churchill

• In Event: Rhetoric, Lies, and Blame: Evaluating Leadership in Times of Crisis

Brief Overview

What moral rhetoric do leaders use when their homelands are attacked by a foreign power? This paper tests hypotheses from Moral Foundations Theory with dictionary-based automated text classification of speeches by Zelenskyy, G.W. Bush, and Churchill.

Authors

• Gregg R. Murray, Augusta University

• Raymond Tatalovich, Loyola University Chicago

• Grantham Sandlin, Augusta University