Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines the most prominent political ideologies of modern time. This revised edition has been enlarged to include feminism and environmentalism.
Defining the concept of leadership, this study examines the relationship between leaders and followers, and the prerequisite skills of leaders. Other chapters explore women as leaders, military leaders, transactional leaders, and the motivations and functions of leaders.
This study seeks to resolve differences amongst various types of political leaders and to link broad historical patterns with the idiosyncratic circumstances of individual lives and careers. It provides comparative medical and psychological profiles for all of the American presidents.
An analysis of political theories from the vantage point of qualities of leadership and human nature. Having established a persuasive conception of leadership, Rejai and Phillips apply it to major thinkers from Plato to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. They find a major shift in leadership theory associated with World War II. Prewar theories are ...
Developing an interactional theory of 45 actual military leaders, this volume stresses the interplay between sociodemographic variables, psychological dynamics and situational factors. Issues such as age, birthplace, socioeconomic status, family life, and ethnicity and religion are documented.
What motivates political leaders to seek office? What social backgrounds do political leaders exhibit? Are all leaders fundamentally alike or do we find important differences between them? These and related questions concerning political leadership are examined in this unique new work. The authors concentrate on two principal "types" of political ...
Since the early 1950s, the 'decline of ideology' hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large. The controversy has taken both empirical and polemical turns. This book concentrates on the empirical literature, offering both original contributions and previously published papers of outstanding importance. ...
This book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies. The author uses the framework to examine the major political ideologies of our time: nationalism, fascism, Marxism, Leninism, guerilla communism, and democracy (including democratic socialism, democratic capitalism, liberalism, and conservatism). A chapter is ...
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