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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050			_aJC423 _b.Y67 2025
100	1		_aYorke, Claire, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEmpathy in Politics and Leadership : _bthe key to transforming our world / _cClaire Yorke.
263			_a2510
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c©2025
300			_a327 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A timely account of empathy, politics, and leadership, showing how greater understanding and connection can foster trust, community, and innovation Empathy has become a cliché of contemporary politics, often espoused but rarely understood. Yet the capacity to understand other worldviews is neither easy nor comfortable. Seeing through others' eyes requires strength, courage, integrity, and an ability to reason across the harshest political divides-and, in a time of heightened marginalization, disconnection, and polarization, empathy in our leaders and across society is vitally important. Claire Yorke offers the first account of empathy in politics and leadership, drawing on examples from across the world. Including model leaders like Nelson Mandela and Jacinda Ardern, as well as figures on the right such as Donald Trump who mobilize different forms of empathy, Yorke asks what distinguishes empathetic leaders from the rest, and examines why empathy is essential for a more human-centred politics. Demonstrating empathy's radical potential and disputing its connotations of weakness, this book shows how we can build a political ecosystem that fosters belonging and engagement-and cultivate the necessary dialogue to find common ground"--
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
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