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Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior
Title:
Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior
Author:
Post, Jerrold M.
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
9/11, the explosive force of personality and political behavior -- When personality affects political behavior -- The psychopolitics of illness in high office -- Terminal leadership, effects of mortal illness on political behavior -- The impact of crisis-induced stress on policy makers -- The mind of the terrorist -- The loss of enemies, fragmenting identities and ethnic/nationalist hatred in Eastern Europe -- Hate-mongering leaders in the former Yugoslavia:Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic -- Narcissism and the charismatic leader-follower relationship -- Fidel Castro, aging revolutionary leader of an aging revolution -- Saddam Hussein, "Saddam is Iraq, Iraq is Saddam" -- Kim Jong II of North Korea, in the shadow of his father -- Concluding observations.
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ISBN:
9780801441691
Format :
Book