The Psychology of Politicians

ISBN: 9780521130660 出版年：2011 页码：250 Ashley Weinberg Cambridge University Press

1. The psychology of politicians Ashley Weinberg Part I. Becoming Politicians: 2. Recruiting politicians: designing competency-based selection for UK parliamentary candidates Jo Silvester 3. Politicians and power: MPs in the UK parliament Richard Kwiatkowski Part II. Being at the Centre of Things: How Politicians Function in their Job: 4. What makes a successful politician? The social skills of politics Peter Bull 5. Cognitive skills and motivation to adapt to social change among Polish politicians Agnieszka Golec de Zavala 6. Political leadership and its development Jean Hartley Part III. Coping with Pressure?: 7. Should the job of national politician carry a government health warning? The impact of psychological strain on politicians Ashley Weinberg 8. When cognitions reach boiling point: the impact of denial and avoidance by policy-makers during a foreign policy crisis Max V. Metselaar Part IV. People as Politicians: 9. The political side of personality Gianvittorio Caprara, Michele Vecchione and Claudio Barbaranelli 10. Where red dictators coexist with promising democrats: the conceptualization of politicians in post-communist Ukraine Pavlo D. Frolov, Olha V. Petrunko and Dmitriy V. Poznyak.