The Captive King and His Captive Court: The Psychopolitical Dynamics of the Disabled Leader and His Inner Circle

Post, Jerrold M.; Robins, Robert S.

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“…10 As Post and Robin put it: 'political leadership is, after all, a middle-aged and old man's game.' 11 Leaders' age has been directly related to foreign policy outcomes. Horowitz, McDermott and Stam, for example, found that older leaders are more likely to initiate and escalate militarized disputes, in most regime types.…”

Section: Ageingmentioning

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New directions for leader personality research: breaking bad in foreign policy

Kaarbo¹

2021

International Affairs

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This article considers how leaders' personality traits change over time. I focus on how leaders become more authoritarian, overconfident and more mistake-prone; how, when and why do leaders ‘break bad’? Temporal evolution of leaders is an important topic given the long tenure of many political leaders and the influence these leaders have over policies, including foreign policies. There is very little work on how leaders' personalities develop and how they interact with changing constraints and opportunities. This article is an agenda-setting review, designed to push foreign policy analysis in new directions. This is especially important given the resurgence in research on personalities and the renewed interest in leaders. Drawing on diverse and multi-disciplinary scholarship on the psychological effects of aging, experience, learning and power-holding, this article develops expectations about leader personality change. I discuss challenges for research in this area, focusing on how ‘bad’ can be conceptualized, and offer specific avenues for future investigations.

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Section: Ageingmentioning

confidence: 99%

New directions for leader personality research: breaking bad in foreign policy

Kaarbo¹

2021

International Affairs

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“…Passing within the context of disability was best exemplified by the successful hiding by Franklin D. Roosevelt of his profound disability from the world during his presidency. This passing as nondisabled not only denied the physical restrictions of Roosevelt's disability but also reinforced the affective deception imposed on the disabled to always be cheerful (Post, 1995;Post & Robins, 1990;Pressman, 2013). As psychologists work with WWD, they are challenged with determining the difference between adaptive passing and detrimental passing.…”

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Women with disabilities: Affirmative practice and assessment.

Banks¹,

Brown²,

Mona³

et al. 2015

Psychological Practice With Women: Guidelines, Diversity, Empowerment.

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Psychology has come to recognize that the effects of biases related to disabilities have been detrimental to the increasingly complex needs of women with disabilities (WWD). Currently, about 27 million women in the United States have disabilities, and the number is growing (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013a). Definitions of disability have evolved and broadened over time and may include medical, legal, social, or political factors. For the purposes of this chapter, disability is defined broadly as a condition that creates impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions, independent of whether the condition is congenital, acquired, acute, or chronic in nature. Disability reflects the interaction between features of a person's body and features of the society in which he or she lives. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research's (NIDRR) "New Paradigm of Disability" emphasizes the interactions among a variety of factors in order to better illuminate the experience of people with disabilities (PWD; Pledger,

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Stress and Political Leadership

Robins

Dorn

1993

Polit. life sci.

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The literature on stress and political leadership typically views such potential stressors as time-pressure, severe consequences for bad decisions, inadequate information, and conflicting demands as negative influences on political performance. We know, however, that many politicians thrive on or even require such circumstances. Drawing on medical, historical, psychiatric, psychological, and political science literature, this essay proposes that there are at least three major types of leaders in regard to potential stressors: sturdy warriors (who cope with or who even enjoy and are helped by events commonly reacted to by others as stressors), battle-hungry warriors (who are psychologically drawn to potential stressors and “cannot function,” well or badly, without them), and frail warriors (who are unable to cope with stressors). Subcategories, including psychological and political dynamics, are provided.

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The Captive King and His Captive Court: The Psychopolitical Dynamics of the Disabled Leader and His Inner Circle

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New directions for leader personality research: breaking bad in foreign policy

New directions for leader personality research: breaking bad in foreign policy

Women with disabilities: Affirmative practice and assessment.

Stress and Political Leadership

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