POL_S 428 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: David Kay
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Formalistic, collegial, competitive: formalistic: emphasis on strict hierarchy, orderly decision structures. Analytical and dispassionate leaders tend to be selected. Stress upon finding best solution to problems instead of working out compromise: competitive relatively unstructured information network. Leader placed in arbiter position among competing advisors. Leaders thrives on conflict and uses it to stay informed, exploit existing political environment. Trying to bring out the best through competition. Tendency to find short term solutions: collegial teamwork, shared responsibility and problem solving in the group. Advisers are viewed more as colleagues to fuse strongest elements of divergent views rather than as subordinates. Leader has strong interpersonal skills and will work with rather than dominate. Has a lower need for a control and a high need to be liked higher tilt toward interpersonal relations. Formalistic: truman, eisenhower, nixon, bush the younger: mostly see presidents with lower levels of cognitive complexity.
