Profiling Political Leaders: Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality and Behavior (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275970369)

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.

Author: Ofer Feldman
ISBN-10: 0275970361
ISBN-13: 9780275970369
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2001
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.42w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2002 pg. 1122
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 8