Psychopathology and politicsLasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
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Psychopathology and politics
Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
Personality and politics; Political science; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Pathological
11. What were the chief issues on which you took a position? How
did your influence make itself felt in each instance (in public
speaking, interviewing, appointive pressure, etc.)? How did each
major issue happen to emerge? How did you arrive at your position?
Whom did you consult? What considerations were balanced on both
sides of the question? To what extent did you make issues by
interjecting specific proposals into the situation? How did you
happen to do this? What were the elements in the organization which
were lined up on either side of the question? What concessions
did you make in order to achieve your ends? Do you regard your
concessions as too cheaply bought as you look back upon them? What
results did you secure which satisfy you?
12. During your tenure were there personal misunderstandings,
quarrels, and hatreds between you and anybody? How did they come
about? What did you do and what was the relation of what you did to
what happened?
13. Were there personal misunderstandings, quarrels, and
antipathies among others inside the organization which you were
asked to settle or which you tried to settle? What did you do and
what relation did it bear to what finally happened?
14. Were there personal misunderstandings, quarrels, and
antipathies between members of your own organization and people in
other organizations which you were asked to settle or which you
tried to settle? What did you do and what relation did it bear to
what finally happened?
15. Did your organization have any ill feelings as a body for other
organizations or groups when you came into office? What did you do
to inflame or reduce it? What effect? Why?
16. Did your organization have any friendly feelings as a body for
other organizations or groups? What did you do to cement or to
disrupt these relations? Why? With what effect on the course of
events?
17. Did your organization develop any friendly or unfriendly
relations with organizations or groups to which they had been
previously indifferent during your term in office? What did you do
that had anything to do with this result? Why?
18. Did your organization use physical, legal, or other forms of
pressure upon any other organization or group during your term?
What was your rôle in suggesting, supporting, directing, or
obstructing the adoption of these tactics? Why? What resulted?
19. Did your organization use physical, legal, economic, or other
forms of pressure upon any of its own members during your term?
What was your rôle in suggesting, supporting, directing, or
obstructing the adoption of these tactics? Why? With what effect?
20. By whom were you praised during and after your term of office
for your record? How were you praised or recognized and honored and
for what? Effect on you?
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