Profiling Political Leaders: Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality and Behavior
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Profiling Political Leaders: Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality and Behavior
By (Author) Ofer Feldman
Edited by Linda O. Valenty
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th August 2001
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
Social, group or collective psychology
320.019
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
595g
Description
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.
Reviews
This volume will interest upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and researchers in political science and international relations as well as psychology.-Choice
"This volume will interest upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and researchers in political science and international relations as well as psychology."-Choice
Author Bio
OFER FELDMAN is Associate Professor of Social Psychology and Politics at Naruto University. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of seven books, including Politically Speaking (Praeger, 1998) and Beyond Public Speech and Symbols (Praeger, 2000). LINDA O. VALENTY is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University. She has authored journal articles and book chapters on political behavior, political psychology, public policy.
