
Profiling Political Leaders
Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality and Behavior
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Profiling Political Leaders
Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality and Behavior
About this book
Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and behavior among political leaders across divergent cultures. Leading scholars in the field examine the application of theoretical approaches and research methods used to evaluate these important relationships. They effectively illustrate the concomitant role of cultural and political context, historical circumstance, environmental factors, and socialization agents affecting political leadership and performance. Contributors evaluate methods currently in use by scholars in political science, psychology, political psychology, social psychology, and history, including psychodiagnostic and psychobiographical approaches, and the application of these methods in profiling the personalities of political leaders. Each chapter presents a unique case study evaluating a political leader or leaders including such major figures as Mao Zedong, Tony Blair, Seyyed Mohammed Khatami, Helmut Kohl, and Stalin, Yeltsin, and Putin.
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Table of contents
- Tables, Figures, and Appendixes
- Preface
- Introduction Ofer Feldman and Linda O. Valenty
- I. Assessment of Personality and Leadership: Content Analytic Techniques
- II. Profiling the Political Personality: Psychodiagnostic and Psychobiographical Approaches
- III. The Cultural Context: Applications from East to West
- References
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors