Many important studies associate the presidential profile of Dilma Rousseff to loss domestic density and reach Brazil’s foreign policy, a perspective not yet confirmed by psychological mechanisms leadership behavior in policy. We offer contribution exploring Leadership Trait Analysis framework with which personality concepts comparisons between Brazilian presidents are examined. Our main findin...

OBJECTIVE Are there key attributes of leaders? Extrovert versus introvert? Charismatic? Detail oriented? Visionary? How do past leaders of the Medical Library Association (MLA) stack up? What leadership skills will MLA's leaders need in a complex information future? Leadership attributes of MLA's past and current presidents were studied to determine the common characteristics shared among these...

Abstract While a growing body of scholarship examines US presidential unilateralism, there remains less focus on policy‐specific areas unilateral action. Given environmental politics is particularly constrained and contentious issue area, understanding the conditions that affect frequency presidents' environment‐related activity requires more nuanced examination. As such, this study draws upon ...

Our objective in this paper is to analyze the degree of political dominance exercised by the executive power on cabinets in presidential systems. According to the 1990s debate, in contrast to parliamentary systems where a joint decision-making process is prevalent, presidential systems are characterized by a non-collegial decisionmaking process, led and personalized in the figure of the preside...

Most scholars focus on whether the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines effectively constrain judges or result in disparate decisions based on a court’s or defendant’s location. With few exceptions, studies of the effect of judicial attributes on federal-district-court-sentencing cases have been stymied by the United States Sentencing Commission’s refusal to release judges’ names in their databases of se...