Journal article
Leadership traits in French national election studies: Measurement issues
French politics, Vol.8(2), pp.215-221
07/2010
DOI: 10.1057/fp.2010.7
Abstract
In French elections, leadership would seem to be important. However, it has received little systematic investigation in French national election studies (FNES), at least until recently. Here, we review the measurement of leader traits and image, in FNES of 1988, 1995, 2002 and 2007. The number of administered items, while increased, is still few. Moreover, they tend to be inconsistently measured, and irregularly applied from election to election, and wave to wave. We identify some items that hold conceptual promise, in terms of measuring Competence, Integrity and Empathy. Then, we go on to propose a 12-item traits battery for future FNES.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Leadership traits in French national election studies: Measurement issues
- Creators
- Michael S Lewis-BeckRichard Nadeau
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- French politics, Vol.8(2), pp.215-221
- DOI
- 10.1057/fp.2010.7
- ISSN
- 1476-3419
- eISSN
- 1476-3427
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2010
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984025658602771
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