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Author Verba, Sidney, author

Title Small groups and political behavior : a study of leadership / Sidney Verba
Edition Paperback edition
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1972
©1961

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents I. Introduction ; What Is a Small Group? ; Plan of the Study ; II. The Primary Group and Politics ; The Rediscovery of the Primary Group ; Pressures to Conform in the Face-to-Face Group ; The Small Group and Political Behavior ; The Small Group and the Political System ; Conclusion ; III. Experiments and the Political Process 1: The Culture of the Laboratory ; The Experimental Method ; The Culture of the Laboratory ; Conclusion ; IV. Experiments and the Political Process 2: Bridging the Gap; Laboratory Culture and Political Culture: Some Similarities
Life-like Experiments The Uses of Experimental Studies ; Conclusion ; V. The Concept of Leadership ; The Political Study of Leadership ; Leadership as a Group Function ; The Behaviors of Leaders ; The Origins of Leadership ; Observation and Measurement of Leadership ; VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1 ; Small Group Analysis as a Tool ; The Dual Leadership Task in Small Groups ; The Dual Leadership Task in On-going Systems ; Conflicting Expectations: Their Effect on the Group ; VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2
Conflicting Expectations: Their Resolution in Small Groups Conflicting Expectations: Their Resolution in On-going Systems ; Experimental Groups and On-going Social Systems compared ; Conclusion ; VIII. Leadership and the Norms of the Group ; The Leader as Conformist ; The Leader as Deviant ; The Content of Conformity ; Group Change and the Conformist-Innovator Dilemma ; IX. The Participation Hypothesis 1: Application of a Small Group Finding; The Iowa Experiments ; Democracy in Small Groups ; Strains on Democratic Leadership
X. The Participation Hypothesis 2: The Generality of a Small Group Finding Why Participation Works ; Does Participation Always Work? ; Conclusion ; XI. A Concluding Note ; Bibliography ; Index
Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the Laboratory. IV. Experiments and the Political Process: 2: Bridging the Gap. V. The Concept of Leadership. VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1. VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2. VIII. Leadership and the Norms of the Group. IX. The Participation Hypothesis, 1: Application of a Small Group Finding. X. The Participation Hypothesis, 2: The Generality of a Small Group Finding. XI. A Concluding Note. Bibliography. Index. Originall
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Leadership.
Small groups.
Political psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Leadership
Political psychology
Small groups
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400872527
1400872529