Stanley A Renshon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley A Renshon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley A |
| FAMILY NAME | Renshon |
| SIGNATURE | RENSHON S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Trump Doctrine and the Emerging International System
The Fight for American Restoration
The Trump presidency was almost wholly unexpected, and remains an enigma. What are its purposes? Why has the president chosen a combative leadership style? This paper argues that the Trump presidency was born in the decades long failure of the Republican-Democratic-conservative consensus regarding the premises of “good” public policy. Trump’s surprise victory set off a maelstrom of vitriolic opposition to his presidency, by any means necessary, t…
Obama’s Choice
Why has President Obama chosen to “Govern by Himself.” This essay analyzes the psychological and political elements that have led President Obama to choose this leadership strategy in the White House. The analysis is framed through the lenses of decision discretion and choice, presidential ambition, and the president’s approach to both leading and governing. It is true that the country is politically divided but the essence of president leadershi…
Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
Redemption, Fairness, and the Politics of Transformation in the Obama Presidency
Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most and still does two years into his presidency. Who is Barack Obama, really?I trace the intertwined developmental arcs of the president's late‐blooming ambition and his ambivalent relationships with both of his parents and his own core identity. Obama's efforts to reconcile th…
The Allure of Blue Ribbon Taskforces and The Hard Reality of Immigration Grand Bargains
Alexander L. George
Security First
Journal Article Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni Get access Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2007. 366 pp. $27.00. Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon The City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 4, Winter 2008, Pages 692–694,…
The Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy Decision Making
Central to Alex George's work was a concern with the psychology of presidential decision making. Our analysis focuses on George's work at the intersection of leadership psychology and the psychology of judgment in the making of consequential foreign policy decisions, specifically those dealing with issues of war and peace. We begin with a review of the fundamental dilemmas of political decision making, focusing on the various factors that present…
Psychological Reflections on Barack Obama and John McCain
either Barack Obama or John McCain will place his hand on a bible, swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, and become the forty-fourth president of the United States.The new president will immediately become responsible for the issues on which he campaigned, those that he ignored but for which he will nonetheless be held accountable, and all those unanticipated issues for which he will also be expected to devise solutions.Naturally, a new pr…
State of Denial
Journal Article State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward Get access State of Denial: Bush at War, Part IIIby Bob Woodward. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2006. 576pp. $30.00. Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon The City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 489–492, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01…
President Clinton's Memoirs
George W. Bush's Cowboy Politics
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the second article of a two‐part series (the first of which was published in the March 2002 issue of this journal), the aut…
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the first article of a two‐part series, I explore the many theories put forward to explain these ambivalent public response…
After the Fall
Journal Article After the Fall: The Clinton Presidency in Psychological Perspective Get access Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon STANLEY A. RENSHON is professor of political science at the City University of New York and a psychoanalyst. His psychological biography, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt award for the best book on the presidency and …
Political Leadership as Social Capital
Social capital is the latest conceptual attempt to account for democracy'spersistence and, when it occurs, its success. Yet that focus neglects an essential element ofdemocracy's performance, leadership capital. Leadership capital consists of thecompetence, integrity, and capacities for performance that leaders may have or bring to bear onsociety's problems. However, it is grounded and unfolds in a society's culture andpsychology. Increasing dive…
The Lost Core of American Politics
Cultural and Cross‐Cultural Political Psychology
Farewell Editorial
The Clinton Presidency
The Psychological Context of the Clinton Presidency: A Framework for Analysis Stanley A. Renshon. Presidential PsychologyThe 1992 Campaign: What Did We Learn? * How George Bush Lost the Presidential Election of 1992 Betty Glad. * The Political Psychology of the Ross Perot Phenomenon Jerrold M. Post. * Character, Judgment, and Political Leadership: Promise, Problems, and Prospects of the Clinton Presidency S. A. Renshon. Public PsychologyLeadershi…
The Political Psychology of the Gulf War
Part 1 The Origins of the Gulf War: Introduction, Stanley A. Renshon Patterns Forged in Time - Middle Eastern Mind-Sets and the Gulf War, L. Carl Brown Commentary on Part 1, Dankwart A. Rustow. Part 2 Leaders, Leadership and Decision-Making: President Bush Goes to War - A Psychological Interpretation from a Distance, Stephen J. Wayne The Defining Moment of Saddam's Life - A Political Psychology Perspective on the Leadership and Decision-Making of…
Politics without Principle
A Preliminary Assessment of the Clinton Presidency
This paper examines the developing Clinton presidency from the perspective of character psychology and leadership theory. I outline some dimensions of Clinton's character and trace its implications for presidential leadership and performance
The Psychology of the Clinton Presidency
The purpose of this symposium is reflected in its title, which is to give an psychologically framed appraisal of the new Clinton administration. Although I stress the word initial to characterize this analysis, this does not mean there is paucity of data to make these preliminary inquires. We now have data available to us from five different but accessible periods which are relevant to our concerns here: (1) Bill Clinton's terms as governor of Ar…
The Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy Decision Making
Central to Alex George's work was a concern with the psychology of presidential decision making. Our analysis focuses on George's work at the intersection of leadership psychology and the psychology of judgment in the making of consequential foreign policy decisions, specifically those dealing with issues of war and peace. We begin with a review of the fundamental dilemmas of political decision making, focusing on the various factors that present…
The Clinton Presidency
The Psychological Context of the Clinton Presidency: A Framework for Analysis Stanley A. Renshon. Presidential PsychologyThe 1992 Campaign: What Did We Learn? * How George Bush Lost the Presidential Election of 1992 Betty Glad. * The Political Psychology of the Ross Perot Phenomenon Jerrold M. Post. * Character, Judgment, and Political Leadership: Promise, Problems, and Prospects of the Clinton Presidency S. A. Renshon. Public PsychologyLeadershi…
The Political Psychology of the Gulf War
Part 1 The Origins of the Gulf War: Introduction, Stanley A. Renshon Patterns Forged in Time - Middle Eastern Mind-Sets and the Gulf War, L. Carl Brown Commentary on Part 1, Dankwart A. Rustow. Part 2 Leaders, Leadership and Decision-Making: President Bush Goes to War - A Psychological Interpretation from a Distance, Stephen J. Wayne The Defining Moment of Saddam's Life - A Political Psychology Perspective on the Leadership and Decision-Making of…
Political Leadership as Social Capital
Social capital is the latest conceptual attempt to account for democracy'spersistence and, when it occurs, its success. Yet that focus neglects an essential element ofdemocracy's performance, leadership capital. Leadership capital consists of thecompetence, integrity, and capacities for performance that leaders may have or bring to bear onsociety's problems. However, it is grounded and unfolds in a society's culture andpsychology. Increasing dive…
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the second article of a two‐part series (the first of which was published in the March 2002 issue of this journal), the aut…
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the first article of a two‐part series, I explore the many theories put forward to explain these ambivalent public response…
Temporal Orientations and Political Life
This brief paper has two purposes. The first is to suggest some reasons why the study of time is important and should be of interest to political analysts. The second is to present some data which link one aspect of temporal analysis, political impatience, with a range of political orientations and behaviors. Although the magnitude of the correlations reported is not large, the patterns of association suggest a syndrome to which more attention ma…
A Preliminary Assessment of the Clinton Presidency
This paper examines the developing Clinton presidency from the perspective of character psychology and leadership theory. I outline some dimensions of Clinton's character and trace its implications for presidential leadership and performance
Some Observations on Character and Privacy Issues in Presidential Campaigns
The 1992 nomination campaign, like its predecessor in 1988, has resulted in the disclosure and discussion of intimate personal information about presidential candidates. In the past two election campaigns, these kinds of disclosures have become quite controversial among the public and among professional observers. At least three major sets of questions arise in connection with these issues. First, does a concern with the personal characteristics …
Psychological Reflections on Barack Obama and John McCain
either Barack Obama or John McCain will place his hand on a bible, swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, and become the forty-fourth president of the United States.The new president will immediately become responsible for the issues on which he campaigned, those that he ignored but for which he will nonetheless be held accountable, and all those unanticipated issues for which he will also be expected to devise solutions.Naturally, a new pr…
George W. Bush's Cowboy Politics
The Psychology of Good Judgment
Procedural models of high quality decision making focus on process rather than dynamics and outcomes. This paper presents a preliminary model of good judgment which examines the psychological factos, both characterological and cognitive, which allow a leader to make effective use of procedures
After the Fall
Journal Article After the Fall: The Clinton Presidency in Psychological Perspective Get access Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon STANLEY A. RENSHON is professor of political science at the City University of New York and a psychoanalyst. His psychological biography, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt award for the best book on the presidency and …
Power in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Redemption, Fairness, and the Politics of Transformation in the Obama Presidency
Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most and still does two years into his presidency. Who is Barack Obama, really?I trace the intertwined developmental arcs of the president's late‐blooming ambition and his ambivalent relationships with both of his parents and his own core identity. Obama's efforts to reconcile th…
The Psychology of the Clinton Presidency
The purpose of this symposium is reflected in its title, which is to give an psychologically framed appraisal of the new Clinton administration. Although I stress the word initial to characterize this analysis, this does not mean there is paucity of data to make these preliminary inquires. We now have data available to us from five different but accessible periods which are relevant to our concerns here: (1) Bill Clinton's terms as governor of Ar…
How to Select a Good President
In addressing the twin problems of presidential leadership and its assessment, both Professor Simonton and Professor Barber raise two basic issues: what do we need to know psychologically about those we select to be president, and how are we to know it? The first requires us to have some sense of the relationship between the requirements of the office and the individual characteristics of persons we select. My shorthand term for those concerns is…
Temporal Orientations and Political Life
This brief paper has two purposes. The first is to suggest some reasons why the study of time is important and should be of interest to political analysts. The second is to present some data which link one aspect of temporal analysis, political impatience, with a range of political orientations and behaviors. Although the magnitude of the correlations reported is not large, the patterns of association suggest a syndrome to which more attention ma…
Models of Man'and Temporal Frameworks in Political Social Iza Tion Theory
Power in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Some Observations on Character and Privacy Issues in Presidential Campaigns
The 1992 nomination campaign, like its predecessor in 1988, has resulted in the disclosure and discussion of intimate personal information about presidential candidates. In the past two election campaigns, these kinds of disclosures have become quite controversial among the public and among professional observers. At least three major sets of questions arise in connection with these issues. First, does a concern with the personal characteristics …
The Psychology of Good Judgment
Procedural models of high quality decision making focus on process rather than dynamics and outcomes. This paper presents a preliminary model of good judgment which examines the psychological factos, both characterological and cognitive, which allow a leader to make effective use of procedures
The Political Psychology of the Gulf War
How to Select a Good President
In addressing the twin problems of presidential leadership and its assessment, both Professor Simonton and Professor Barber raise two basic issues: what do we need to know psychologically about those we select to be president, and how are we to know it? The first requires us to have some sense of the relationship between the requirements of the office and the individual characteristics of persons we select. My shorthand term for those concerns is…
Politics without Principle
A Preliminary Assessment of the Clinton Presidency
This paper examines the developing Clinton presidency from the perspective of character psychology and leadership theory. I outline some dimensions of Clinton's character and trace its implications for presidential leadership and performance
The Psychology of the Clinton Presidency
The purpose of this symposium is reflected in its title, which is to give an psychologically framed appraisal of the new Clinton administration. Although I stress the word initial to characterize this analysis, this does not mean there is paucity of data to make these preliminary inquires. We now have data available to us from five different but accessible periods which are relevant to our concerns here: (1) Bill Clinton's terms as governor of Ar…
The Political Psychology of the Gulf War
Part 1 The Origins of the Gulf War: Introduction, Stanley A. Renshon Patterns Forged in Time - Middle Eastern Mind-Sets and the Gulf War, L. Carl Brown Commentary on Part 1, Dankwart A. Rustow. Part 2 Leaders, Leadership and Decision-Making: President Bush Goes to War - A Psychological Interpretation from a Distance, Stephen J. Wayne The Defining Moment of Saddam's Life - A Political Psychology Perspective on the Leadership and Decision-Making of…
The Clinton Presidency
The Psychological Context of the Clinton Presidency: A Framework for Analysis Stanley A. Renshon. Presidential PsychologyThe 1992 Campaign: What Did We Learn? * How George Bush Lost the Presidential Election of 1992 Betty Glad. * The Political Psychology of the Ross Perot Phenomenon Jerrold M. Post. * Character, Judgment, and Political Leadership: Promise, Problems, and Prospects of the Clinton Presidency S. A. Renshon. Public PsychologyLeadershi…
Cultural and Cross‐Cultural Political Psychology
Farewell Editorial
After the Fall
Journal Article After the Fall: The Clinton Presidency in Psychological Perspective Get access Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon STANLEY A. RENSHON is professor of political science at the City University of New York and a psychoanalyst. His psychological biography, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt award for the best book on the presidency and …
Political Leadership as Social Capital
Social capital is the latest conceptual attempt to account for democracy'spersistence and, when it occurs, its success. Yet that focus neglects an essential element ofdemocracy's performance, leadership capital. Leadership capital consists of thecompetence, integrity, and capacities for performance that leaders may have or bring to bear onsociety's problems. However, it is grounded and unfolds in a society's culture andpsychology. Increasing dive…
The Lost Core of American Politics
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the second article of a two‐part series (the first of which was published in the March 2002 issue of this journal), the aut…
The Polls
The public's response to the Clinton administration's many scandals and the president's impeachment is both puzzling and contradictory. They supported the president, but not his behavior; they wanted him severely reprimanded, but not punished; and they wanted him to remain in office, but were happy to see him leave. In this, the first article of a two‐part series, I explore the many theories put forward to explain these ambivalent public response…
President Clinton's Memoirs
George W. Bush's Cowboy Politics
State of Denial
Journal Article State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward Get access State of Denial: Bush at War, Part IIIby Bob Woodward. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2006. 576pp. $30.00. Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon The City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 489–492, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01…
Alexander L. George
Security First
Journal Article Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni Get access Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2007. 366 pp. $27.00. Stanley A. Renshon Stanley A. Renshon The City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 4, Winter 2008, Pages 692–694,…
The Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy Decision Making
Central to Alex George's work was a concern with the psychology of presidential decision making. Our analysis focuses on George's work at the intersection of leadership psychology and the psychology of judgment in the making of consequential foreign policy decisions, specifically those dealing with issues of war and peace. We begin with a review of the fundamental dilemmas of political decision making, focusing on the various factors that present…
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