Bücher von Harold D. Lasswell

2016 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. First published in 1930, this classic study of personality types remains vital for the understanding of contemporary public figures. Lasswell's pioneering application of the concepts of clinical psychology to the understanding of powerbrokers in politics, business, and even the church offers insights into the careers of leaders as diverse as Adolf Hitler and, arguably to more recent figures such as Richard Nixon, Donald Trump and the Clintons.Contents: Life histories and political science -- The psychopathological approach -- A new technique of thinking -- The criteria of political types -- Theories of personality development -- Political agitators -- Political agitators-continued -- Political administrators -- Political convictions -- The politics of prevention -- The prolonged interview and its objectification -- The personality system and its substitutive reactions -- The state as a manifold of events.

Power is an interpersonal situation: those who hold power depend on a continuing stream of empowering responses. Are there "born leaders" and "born followers"? Is there a basic political type, or a certain kind of personality that seeks power? What implications do the motives for getting and using power have for democratic forms of government? In the light of recurrent challenges to democracy, and growing interest in psychological factors in those who govern, Harold D. Lasswell's classic study offers a wide-ranging introduction to these vital concerns.

The 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. This title describes the process by which power becomes a value of first importance and the way appropriate skills in exercising power are acquired.

Advanced industrial societies are becoming aware of the impact of what they do to the physical and biological environment, and also what that environment does to individuals

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.,."we need much more writing of this kind but it would be too much to expect of it to be as good as this."-Political Science Quarterly