Power and Personality

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.

Author: Harold Dwight Lasswell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/1976
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780393008296
ISBN10: 0393008290
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process | General
- Psychology | Personality
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | General