Political Leadership for the New Century

Personality and Behavior Among American Leaders

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Political Leadership for the New Century

Personality and Behavior Among American Leaders

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Valenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical methods from scholars around the world. While focused on American political leadership, the different approaches and vantage points offer fresh insights of the roles of cultural and political context, including the historical circumstance, environmental factors, and socialization agents that affect and shape American political leadership and performance.

The highly unusual and valuable approach includes multidisciplinary perspectives with contributors from the fields of political science, political psychology, philosophy, sociology, and economics. Scholars, students, and researchers from a variety of disciplines will find the evaluations of the interaction between personality, leadership, decision making, and context invaluable.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction by Linda O. Valenty and Ofer Feldman
Overview: Assessing Personality and Behavior Among American Leaders
The Qualitative Study of Presidential Personality by Fred I. Greenstein
Political Leadership: Some Methodological Considerations by Betty Glad
Motivation and Political Leadership by David G. Winter
Quantitative Analysis: Contributions to the Study of Personality and Bahavior
U.S. Presidents as Conflict Managers: The Operational Codes of George Bush and Bill Clinton by Mark Schafer, Michael D. Young, and Stephen G. Walker
Motive Imagery and Integrative Complexity: Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, and The Northern Ireland Peace Talks by Linda O. Valenty and M. Betsy Carroll
The Political Personality of U.S. Presidential Candidate George W. Bush by Aubrey Immelman
Assessments of America's Chief Executives: Insights from Biographers and Objective Personality Measures by Steven J. Rubenzer, Thomas R. Faschingbauer, and Deniz S. One
Qualitative Analysis: Contributions to the Study of Personality and Behavior
Studying Images and Their Impact on Behavior: The Case of the Carter Administration by Jerel Rosati
John F. Kennedy as Dramatic Leader by Robert E. Gilbert
Cloak and Swagger: Personality and Leadership in the Vice-Presidency of Spiro T. Agnew by Scott W. Webster
Governing a Divided America in the New Millennium: Heroic versus Reflective Leadership by Stanley A. Renshon
References
Index

Product details

Published Mar 30 2002
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9780275970376
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 235 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Linda O. Valenty

Anthology Editor

Ofer Feldman

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