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The President is a Person After All
Presidential Character and Performance
Barber's Argument
Personality = Performance
Character
A president’s personality is an important shaper of his presidential behavior and is understandable in psychological terms.
Worldview
Style
A president’s personality interacts with the power situation he faces and the national climate of expectations.
Enhancing Presidential Power
Informal powers
Formal powers
Positive
Negative
Compulsive: power as means to self-realization, driven,
problem managing aggression,
energetic for selfish reasons
Active
Adaptive: self-confident,
power used as means to
achieve beneficial results,
may fail to see the irrational nature of politics
Receptive and compliant:
seek to be loved, easily manipulated, low self-esteem, superficial optimism
Passive
Withdrawn: respond to
sense of duty, avoid power,
low self-esteem, lack experience
and flexibility
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