Personality and Democratic Politics

by Paul M. Sniderman

How does a personality characteristic such as self-esteem become translated into political convictions? How do individual differences in self-esteem affect who becomes a politcal activist and a political leader? These are among the major questions addressed in this study, the first of its kind to be based on large-scale samples of both political laders and ordinary citizens. Drawing on the voluminous research of social psychologists on self-esteem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520303849
• ISBN13: 9780520303843
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"