Power and Personality

ISBN-13: 9781412810326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str.

Harold Lasswell; Peter Deleon

Opis

This book concerns the wanting, getting, and giving of power. Recent advances in medicine, sociology, and psychology have deepened our understanding of the motives, skills, and experience that operate between leaders and those who are led.Since power is about decision-making, it fi gures not only in offi cial institutions but in other organizations, including political parties, pressure groups, trade associations, business enterprises, trade unions, and many other types of organizations

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, I. INTRODUCTION: THE MEANING OF POWER, II. POLITICAL ROLE AND POLITICAL TYPE, III. THE POLITICAL PERSONALITY, IV. VARIETIES OF CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY, V. POLITICAL REALITY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS, VI. DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND THE POLICY SCIENCES, VII. THE FORMATION OF DEMOCRATIC PERSONALITY, VIII. LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: REDUCE PROVOCATION, IX LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: ACT POSITIVELY, X CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND OUR HISTORICAL PERIOD, APPENDIX: ON POWER AND INFLUENCE (WITH ABRAHAM KAPLAN), NOTES, INDEX

O autorze

Harold D. Lasswell