Political Representation as Emotional Link
The objective of this contribution is to examine the democratic link which unites represented citizens and elected representatives from an emotion perspective. We shall focus on a historic approach to study the French case. According to a first model, the feelings are strictly supervised at the top of the State. This model did not obviously disappear, but it has been challenged for a few years by a model based on the expression of emotions. The ruler is not only the one who perceives the feelings of the crowd and knows how to translate them into public actions; he is the one who feels them with intensity. He is moved as everyone by collective dramas and he is delighted during the collective joy.