Personality and Politics Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization

Name: Personality and Politics Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization
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ISBN: 9780393007671

ISBN-10: 0393007677

ISBN-13: 9780393007671

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Authors: Fred I. Greenstein

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It is widely recognized that politics often is profoundly shaped by the personalities of the actors in the political process. Yet the scholarly literature on "personality and politics" is one of the most vexed, controversial, and methodologically gnarled bodies of inquiry in the social sciences. The author of this book, an acknowledged authority in the field, attempts to lay out conceptual and methodological standards for carrying out personality-and-politics inquiries--ranging from psychological case studies of single actors, through multi-case analyses of types of political actors, to aggregative analyses of the impact of individuals and types of individuals on political systems and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1975
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 0.50" wide x 0.80" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Fred I. Greenstein is professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University. His books include "The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama" (Princeton); "The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader"; and "How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965".