1st Edition

Power and Personality

By Harold D. Lasswell Copyright 2009
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

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 figures not only in offi cial institutions but in other organizations, including political parties, pressure groups,... Read more
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

Biography

Harold D. Lasswell