Can Personality and Politics Be Studied Systematically?

Greenstein, Fred I.

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“…Extant work on SDO has documented its importance as a predictor of racial and cultural attitudes (Esses, Dovidio, Jackson, & Armstrong, ; Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, ); however, our research demonstrates its importance to behaviors toward members of cultural out‐groups. And finally, our theory provides a compelling illustration of the analytical merits of an interdisciplinary and interactionist approach to the study of politics (Greenstein, ). That is, our theoretical framework integrates economic and psychological concepts to address the interplay of personality and situational experiences in the realm of immigration.…”

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Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

Newman¹,

Hartman

Taber

2013

Political Psychology

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We argue that conflict over immigration largely concerns who bears the burden of cultural transaction costs, which we define as the costs associated with overcoming cultural barriers (e.g., language) to social exchange. Our framework suggests that the ability of native-born citizens to push cultural transaction costs onto immigrant outgroups serves as an important expression of social dominance. In two novel studies, we demonstrate that social dominance motives condition emotional responses to encountering cultural transaction costs, shape engagement in cultural accommodation behavior toward immigrants, and affect immigration attitudes and policy preferences.

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Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

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Taber

2013

Political Psychology

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“…Gleichwohl sind handelnde Personen in diesem Konzept nicht vollständig von ihrer Außenwelt determiniert. Sie können sich nicht nur teilweise von den strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen emanzipieren, sondern prägen diese zugleich mit (Greenstein 1992;Sinclair 1993: 216-217;Woshinsky 1995: 183-184). Hinzu kommt, jeweils fallweise, der Einfluss kurzfristig wirksamer, situativer politischer "Umstände".…”

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„Politische Führung“ als politikwissenschaftliches Problem

Helms

2000

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Politische Führung" zählt zu den klassischen Themen der internationalen Politikforschung, deren Zeugnisse sich bis in die Antike zurückverfolgen lassen. In den modernen westlichen Demokratien hat "leadership" als eigenständiges, von der Policy-Ebene teilweise abgekoppeltes Bewertungskriterium für die Leistung von Regierungen und Regierungschefs über die letzten Jahre hinweg sogar eine zusätzliche Bedeutung hinzu gewonnen. Speziell in der deutschsprachigen Politikwissenschaft gehört das Studium von politischer Führung ungeachtet dessen nach wie vor zu den methodisch und konzeptionell am stärksten unterentwickelten Teilbereichen des Faches. Der Beitrag systematisiert und diskutiert die unterschiedlichen interdisziplinären Zugänge der internationalen "leadership"-Forschung und bezieht Position zu Gunsten einer "interaktionistisch" orientierten Forschungsperspektive zum Studium von politischer Führung in westlichen Demokratien, welche sowohl institutionellen, gesellschaftlichen, personellen und politisch-situativen Faktoren als auch demokratietheoretisch-normativen Erwägungen Rechnung trägt.

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“…Although Clearly there is scope to extrapolate from such findings in order to investigate attraction to and effectiveness in political roles. However, Greenstein (1992) proposes five arguments why the complexity of political environments makes it more difficult to study personality and political performance than personality and work performance. First, he argues that, unlike employees, political actors are randomly distributed in roles and therefore their personalities are more likely to "cancel out".…”

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Politics and Politicians at Work

Silvester

2008

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. (Gandz & Murray, 1980). Much less likely would be descriptions of political actions being used for the good of others or to achieve some work-related goal. Permanent repository linkPolitics is associated with the "dark side" of workplace behaviour and researchers have described political behaviour as inherently divisive, stressful, and a cause of dissent and reduced performance (e.g., Bolino, 1999;Fandt & Ferris, 1990; Ferris, Adams, Kolodinsky, Hochwater & Ammeter, 2002;Kacmar & Baron, 1999;Witt, 1998). For the most part political activity is seen as something that needs to be minimized or removed to maximize organizational functioning.Yet, politics and politicians are also at the heart of democracy: their performance affects This chapter considers why I/O psychologists do not look to political arenas to test or apply their theories and research, and why there have been so few attempts to explore organizational politics in the broader political context of government organizations. It considers whether this is a missed opportunity or whether valid differences make it difficult to draw comparisons between politics in the workplace and the politics of government. In order to do this, the chapter critically reviews research on workplace politics by I/O psychologists and reflects on findings in relation to the broader arena of politicians and political work. The primary focus is on individuals acting politically rather than groups or political systems. It asks whether a better understanding of political activity at work might be gained by studying politicians and political environments. The 1970s and 1980s saw burgeoning interest in the topic of organizational politics.Effort was devoted to explaining why politics occurred, when it was likely to occur, the form it might take, as well as its likely consequences. Research focused on politics as an organizational phenomenon, with political activity resulting from individuals or groups with different needs competing for limited organizational resources. Organizations were described as political battlegrounds where coalitions form and deform in the process of building and exercising power, and daily campaigns are waged in an effort to control scarce resources (Bies & Tripp, 1995;Ferris, Perrewé, Anthony & Gilmore, 2000). Two broad perspectives emerged from this work. In the first of these researchers typically view politics as an illegitimate aspect of organizational life: a phenomenon that causes conflict and division between organizational members, impeding the achievement of organizational goals. Central to this perspective is the idea that politics involves placing self-interest above the interests of organization and other organizational members (see definitions of political behaviour in Table 1). Pettigrew (1973), for example, describes company politics as the by-play that occurs when a person or group wishes to advance themselves or their ideas...

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Can Personality and Politics Be Studied Systematically?

Cited by 81 publications

References 56 publications

Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

„Politische Führung“ als politikwissenschaftliches Problem

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Politics and Politicians at Work

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