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  • 29 Apr 2024
    Kim L. Fridkin, Patrick J. Kenney

    Choices in a Chaotic Campaign:  Looking Forward to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

    We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box.  In our book, Choices in a […]

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  • 21 Oct 2020

    Race and the 2020 Elections

    As we enter the final weeks before the U.S. elections, the stakes could not be higher. Against the backdrop of a surging pandemic, the country continues to experience record unemployment, small-business closures, and other forms of economic insecurity. Environmental calamities grow increasingly common and intense. State violence against Black bodies continues unabated, and human rights […]

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  • 19 Aug 2020
    Nichole M. Bauer

    The challenges of being a woman on the ticket in 2020

    California Senator Kamala Harris’s selection for the vice-presidential spot is an historic moment. Selecting Harris as a running mate appears to be a pretty reasonable choice for Joe Biden. She’s eminently qualified for the job with her professional background as a prosecutor and her electoral background. She worked her way up to be District Attorney […]

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  • 9 Nov 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Speaking Up on Behalf of Resistance

    With the 2016 election come and gone, Bert Spector reflects on leadership and resistance

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  • 5 Nov 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Leadership and Hubris

    In Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership.  Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and open issues for new options.”  In their disinclination to be constrained by the status quo, they are generators of […]

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  • 31 Oct 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    “Such a Nasty Woman”

    With only a week left before Election Day, Bert Spector dissects Trump's recent "nasty woman" comments and their relationship to leadership discourse.

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  • 11 Oct 2016
    Donald Trump. Photo: Greg Skidmore via Creative Commons.
    Stanley O. Gaines, Jr

    Narcissism and Romance in the Age of Trump

    A new blog post from Stanely O. Gaines, Jr. author of Personality and Close Relationship Processes.

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  • 5 Oct 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    More on Ideology and Leadership

    All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis.  Over the weekend, this matter burst into the public spotlight with the revelation that one of the Presidential candidates claimed a nearly $1 billion […]

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