Political Leadership for the New Century: Personality and Behavior Among American Leaders

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Examines political leadership through a wide range of case studies of American leaders. 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.

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Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.-Choice
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LINDA O. VALENTY is Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at San Jose State University. She has authored journal articles and book chapters on political behavior and political psychology. OFER FELDMAN is Associate Professor of Social Psychology and Politics at Naruto University of Education, Japan. He is the author or editor of five earlier books, including Politically Speaking (Praeger, 1998) and Beyond Public Speech and Symbols (Praeger, 2000).