Leadership, terrorism, and the use of violence

Hermann, Margaret G.; Sakiev, Azamat

doi:10.1080/17467586.2011.627935

Cited by 12 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…After quantification, the frequency with which these words or groups of words were repeated in each category in each one of the interviews was calculated and the assessment of the leaders' traits were determined using the following formula: leader − X − total − X > σ; that is, leaders fell into a category when the difference between their average percentage and the overall average percentage was greater than the standard deviation within the category in question. The criteria proposed by Hermann (2003, p. 32) have proven to be reliable and have been used successfully in various academic works to assess leadership styles (Dyson 2009b;Hermann and Sakiev 2011;Keller and Foster 2016;Rivas and Tarín 2017). To ensure the reliability of the method, a codification manual containing the rules and standards for replicating the results was drawn up (Table 3).…”

Section: Method: Assessing Leadership Styles By Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership Styles and War and Peace Policies in the Spanish–Basque Conflict: A Discourse Analysis of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Sanz

Otero

2018

Social Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The purpose of this paper is to establish possible links between leadership styles and war and peace policies in the Spanish-Basque conflict. To this end, an analysis was performed of the styles of two Spanish premiers, José María Aznar (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004) and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011), both of whom were involved in the same conflict with similar peace policies. The structure of the paper is as follows: an overview of the literature on leadership styles in armed conflict situations and the construction of a theoretical framework; a review of the historical and biographical context; a description of the interview content analysis methodology for measuring leadership styles; a classification of Aznar and Zapatero on the basis of their leadership styles and a comparative analysis of their policies and those enforced by other leaders in a context of internal armed conflict; and the conclusions.

show abstract

Section: Method: Assessing Leadership Styles By Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership Styles and War and Peace Policies in the Spanish–Basque Conflict: A Discourse Analysis of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Sanz

Otero

2018

Social Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It is also worth noting that, as Tetlock et al. () describe in detail, often competing theories or data exist—indeed, some theories might predict that complexity would go up prior to violence due to increased processing demands (e.g., Hermann & Sakiev, )—and this complicates things further. Thus, while these third‐order findings are useful in some sense for showing a measurement is capturing something beyond mere chance, they should not be treated as perfect barometers of the exact nature of the measurement itself.…”

Section: The Gold Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated Integrative Complexity: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Houck

Conway

Gornick

2014

Political Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Automating integrative complexity is fraught with many challenges. To address these challenges, we discuss the tension between a specificity approach and a more flexible multiple-pass approach, the multifaceted nature of the complexity construct, the gold standard for complexity measurement, the difficulty of human scoring and its consequences for automation, and some ways forward for creating the best complexity measurements. In so doing, we present new data demonstrating (1) initial evidence for the validity of a new automated system for measuring two different forms of complexity (elaborative and dialectical), (2) the danger of constructing measurements in a purely ad hoc fashion that ignores prospective testing, (3) human-to-computer correspondence is in part a function of human-to-human correspondence, (4) human-to-computer correspondence increases systematically as one uses tests with larger units of analysis, and (5) the lack of correspondence of different systems (both human and automated) may occur in part because they were designed for different units of analysis.

show abstract

“…The Soviet-era Kremlin was a famously closed leadership group but public statements by its members have been used to analyze its group decision-making processes (Stewart, Hermann, & Hermann, 1989). Terrorist rhetoric has been used to assess the leadership styles of terrorist leaders (M. G. Hermann & Sakiev, 2011) and in cases where multiple individuals within terrorist groups make statements and give interviews, it is possible that group differences and processes may be revealed.…”

Section: Designing Empirical Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Terrorism and Small Groups

Reedy

Gastil

Gabbay

2013

Small Group Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Terrorism scholarship has revealed the importance of small groups-both cells and leadership groups-in the proliferation of violence, yet this field remains only loosely connected to small group theory and research. There exists no systematic consideration of the role that group dynamics play in the disruption of terrorist activities. This article proposes an analytical framework for terrorist group disruption that shows how the goals and methods of counterterrorist intervention intersect with small group behavior. We use this framework to theorize how three intervention types-repression, manipulation, and persuasion-interact with group variables and processes, such as communication networks, social identities, group cohesion, and intragroup conflict. Seven theoretical propositions demonstrate how the framework can show how the direct and indirect effects of group behavior can augment or undermine counterterrorist strategies.

show abstract

Leadership, terrorism, and the use of violence

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Leadership Styles and War and Peace Policies in the Spanish–Basque Conflict: A Discourse Analysis of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Leadership Styles and War and Peace Policies in the Spanish–Basque Conflict: A Discourse Analysis of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Automated Integrative Complexity: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Terrorism and Small Groups

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About