Where does the buck stop?: Assessing the impact of presidential personality

Political Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 421-452

  Kowert, Paul A ^a  

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Author keywords

Integrative complexity; Personality; Presidents; Psychobiography; Q sort

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030507647     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3791963     Document Type: Article

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