Past research on the personality basis of leadership has led several investigators to study the characteristics of American presidents using content-analytical and biographical measures. In this article, biographical information on 39 U.S. chief executives provided the basis for assessments by seven raters on 82 items concerning presidential style. The presidents could be reliably discriminated...

Editor’s Note: Every year at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting, our presidents reflect on their year of leadership of the academy, as do the presidents of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FPMANZCA) and International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS) at their respective annual meetings. In words that often both inspire a...

In The Particularistic President we challenge the dominant paradigm asserting presidential universalism. Instead, we argue that presidents possess strong electoral and partisan incentives to pursue policies that prioritize the needs of some Americans over those of others. In this article, we review our larger argument and expand upon our analyses of two policy areas where presidents have unilat...

Like most nongovernmental organizations, NEHA is a volunteer organization. As members we perform numerous functions for the organization as volunteers. Volunteers range from the board of directors (which includes the fi ve elected offi cers and the nine regional vice presidents), to the affi liate presidents, technical advisors, peer reviewers and technical editors, past presidents, and numerou...

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