Donald Trump: Narcissist, Psychopath or Representative of the People?

Ashcroft, Anton

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“…Trump is a practitioner (and a product) of celebrity culture: Corbyn was a virtual unknown until his unexpected translation into party leader. Trump appears to be driven by narcissism (Ashcroft, 2016); Corbyn by the cause he serves (Stafford, 2016). They are ideological opposites.…”

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Defying expectations: what leader insurgencies reveal about media and party incapacity in the time of ‘audience democracy’

Walter

Ghazarian

2018

Media International Australia

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Political communication and citizen engagement have been impacted by crises in both political parties and conventional media models. This article contends that the confluence of these crises has been insufficiently understood, and that this lack of understanding depends upon a third element: the dissolution of a ‘holding culture’, a sense of the ‘rules of the game’ that has constituted the ground on which parties and the media operated and generated the imaginative space for constituting community. This dissolution might be represented as resistance to a now discredited political class, once constituted by ‘old’ political and media elites, and promising a new culture – with the potential for parties to be more responsive to ‘the people’, and for a more diversified and representative media. By looking at case studies of leadership insurgency in parties and the impact of new media in creating the discursive conditions for their emergence, this article explores the realities in relation to political communication and democratic engagement.

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Defying expectations: what leader insurgencies reveal about media and party incapacity in the time of ‘audience democracy’

Walter

Ghazarian

2018

Media International Australia

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“…sparked controversy among medical practitioners and political scientists regarding his psychological fitness for office (Ashcroft, 2016). In a recent book (Lee, 2017), more than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists agreed that Trump's mental instability is dangerous to the United States-and the world.…”

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The Personalities of Presidents as Independent Variables

Araya

2020

Political Psychology

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The debate about the relative importance of the personality traits of presidents has a long history. Until the mid-1970s, scholars of the presidency extensively focused on the uniqueness of the individuals that held office. However, the difficulty in capturing presidential personalities and measuring their impact on executive politics led to a significant quantitative shift that focused more on the institutions within which presidents operate. This change produced a long-lasting divide between researchers interested in the "institutional" presidency and those focused on the "personal" presidency. I propose to integrate both approaches by incorporating insights from differential psychology to treat the personality traits of presidents as independent variables. In support of the argument, I use data from an expert survey that captured psychometric traits of presidents who governed the Western Hemisphere in 1945-2012 to reassess an influential study about Latin American presidents. The results show that adding openness to experience leads to a deeper understanding of presidential approval. I conclude by arguing that measuring the personality traits of all sorts of leaders is necessary to modernize the study of elites.

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“…Работы, так или иначе касающиеся личностных характеристик политического лидера, можно условно отнести к трем основным темам [Hyatt, Campbell, Lynam, Miller 2018]. Среди них выявление 1 , изучение нарциссизма политика [Williams, Pillai, Deptula, Lowe, McCombs 2018;Ashcroft 2016], проблемы, связанные с его импульсивностью и гипоманией [Immelman 2017;Ott 2017], и попытки поставить психиатрический диагноз [The Dangerous Case... 2017].…”

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Donald Trump’s Political and Psychological Profile

Aybazova

2019

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Meždunar. otnoš.

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The article presents the summary of the political psychology scientific research, fully corresponding to the academic traditions of the Department of Sociology and Psychology of Politics of Moscow State University. The study was devoted to a political and psychological analysis of the personality traits of populist-type politicians. The objectives of this study included psychological diagnosis and assessment of the personality of US President Donald Trump. A number of general scientific principles were used, including the principle of complexity, systematicity, subjectivity, integrability, reflexivity and optimality. The identification of basic psychological characteristics and the analysis of the most pronounced personality traits of Donald Trump were carried out using a methodology that combines wide research capabilities of of political science, psychology and sociology. The specificity of the research predefined using distant methods of data collection and processing, due to the inaccessibility of the studied personality. The biography method, content analysis and observation method were chosen as guiding. Scientific research concluded with forming a political and psychological profile of the American leader’s personality. According to the typology proposed by R. Ziller, he belongs to the category of “apolitical politician”, which indicates an overestimated self-esteem, nonconformism, and no dependence on the opinions of those around him. In addition, according to the L. Etheredge’s typology of styles of interpersonal relationships, Donald Trump is an extrovert with a high level of dominance. The political behavior of the President of the United States corresponds to the type of “agitator” in accordance with the typologies of G. Lasswell.

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Donald Trump: Narcissist, Psychopath or Representative of the People?

Cited by 15 publications

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Defying expectations: what leader insurgencies reveal about media and party incapacity in the time of ‘audience democracy’

Defying expectations: what leader insurgencies reveal about media and party incapacity in the time of ‘audience democracy’

The Personalities of Presidents as Independent Variables

Donald Trump’s Political and Psychological Profile

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