Profiling political leaders
Subtitle: cross-cultural studies of personality and behavior
By: edited by Ofer Feldman and Linda O. Valenty
Contributors: Feldman, Ofer, 1954-; Valenty, Linda O
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Personality and occupation -- Cross-cultural studies; Political leadership -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Political psychology -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-279) and index
Table of contents: title: Assessment of personality and leadership: content analytic techniques.  Studying Canadian leaders at a distance; title: Political leadership and the democratic peace: the operational code of Prime Minister Tony Blair; title: The 1996 Russian presidential candidates: a content analysis of motivational configuration and conceptual/ integrative complexity; title: The personality and leadership style of President Khatami: implications for the future of Iranian political reform.  Profiling the political personality: psychodiagnostic and psychobiographical approaches.  Linking leadership style to policy: how prime ministers influence the decision-making process; title: Kings, queens, and sultans: empirical studies of political leadership in European hereditary monarchies; title: Mao Zedong's narcissistic personality disorder and China's road to disaster; title: Profiling Russian leaders from a psychohistorical and psychobiographical perspective; title: Benjamin Netanyahu: a psychological profile using behavior analysis.  The cultural context: applications from east to west.  Building the war economy and rebuilding postwar Japan: a profile of pragmatic nationalist Nobusuke Kishi; title: When and why do hard-liners become soft? An examination of Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Rabin, Peres, and Netanyahu; title: Predicting the performance of leaders in parliamentary systems: New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange; title: Self-presentation of political leaders in Germany: the case of Helmut Kohl; title: The comparative psychoanalytic study of political leaders: John McCain and the limits of trait psychology