Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, I. INTRODUCTION: THE MEANING OF POWER, II. POLITICAL ROLE AND POLITICAL TYPE, III. THE POLITICAL PERSONALITY, IV. VARIETIES OF CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY, V. POLITICAL REALITY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS, VI. DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND THE POLICY SCIENCES, VII. THE FORMATION OF DEMOCRATIC PERSONALITY, VIII. LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: REDUCE PROVOCATION, IX LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: ACT POSITIVELY, X CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND OUR HISTORICAL PERIOD, APPENDIX: ON POWER AND INFLUENCE (WITH ABRAHAM KAPLAN), NOTES, INDEX

About the Author

Harold D. Lasswell served as Ford Foundation Professor of the Social Sciences at Yale University, Distinguished Professor of Policy Sciences at John Jay College of the City University of New York, and as professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was a past president of the American Political Science Association and author of many books covering the full range of political and policy research. Peter deLeon is director of the doctorate program and professor at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver. In 2000 he received the distinguished Harold D. Lasswell Award from the Policy Studies Organization. He is the author of Thinking about Political Corruption, Democracy and the Policy Sciences, and Advice and Consent.

Reviews

-This brilliant book draws, soberly and eloquently, upon more than twenty years of the intellectual production of one of the most insightful political analysts of our time.- --Nathan Leites, the Public Opinion Quarterly -The reader will find many insights.- --William W. Hollister, the Journal of Philosophy -A disturbing aspect of Lasswell's approach--and it may disturb others--is that if he is correct, our profession is afflicted with a high degree of technological obsolescence.- --V.O. Key, Jr., the American Political Science Review -This book, in both thought and style, is well calculated to infuriate some of its possible readers, just those readers who would get the most out of it. . . . Lasswell is magnificently objective toward facts; pragmatic and resolute regarding purposes. This seems to me to be the difficult but necessary method of any writer on politics who assumes the coadjuvant rOle of political leader. We need much more writing of this kind but it would be too much to expect of it to be as good as this.- --Lyman Bryson, Political Science Quarterly

"This brilliant book draws, soberly and eloquently, upon more than twenty years of the intellectual production of one of the most insightful political analysts of our time." --Nathan Leites, the Public Opinion Quarterly "The reader will find many insights." --William W. Hollister, the Journal of Philosophy "A disturbing aspect of Lasswell's approach--and it may disturb others--is that if he is correct, our profession is afflicted with a high degree of technological obsolescence." --V.O. Key, Jr., the American Political Science Review "This book, in both thought and style, is well calculated to infuriate some of its possible readers, just those readers who would get the most out of it. . . . Lasswell is magnificently objective toward facts; pragmatic and resolute regarding purposes. This seems to me to be the difficult but necessary method of any writer on politics who assumes the coadjuvant rOle of political leader. We need much more writing of this kind but it would be too much to expect of it to be as good as this." --Lyman Bryson, Political Science Quarterly

"This brilliant book draws, soberly and eloquently, upon more than twenty years of the intellectual production of one of the most insightful political analysts of our time." --Nathan Leites, the Public Opinion Quarterly "The reader will find many insights." --William W. Hollister, the Journal of Philosophy "A disturbing aspect of Lasswell's approach--and it may disturb others--is that if he is correct, our profession is afflicted with a high degree of technological obsolescence." --V.O. Key, Jr., the American Political Science Review "This book, in both thought and style, is well calculated to infuriate some of its possible readers, just those readers who would get the most out of it. . . . Lasswell is magnificently objective toward facts; pragmatic and resolute regarding purposes. This seems to me to be the difficult but necessary method of any writer on politics who assumes the coadjuvant rOle of political leader. We need much more writing of this kind but it would be too much to expect of it to be as good as this." --Lyman Bryson, Political Science Quarterly