The power of the dark side: personality, the dark triad, and political ambition

Blais, Julie; Pruysers, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.029

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“…That the concept of political satisfaction is the basic principle derived from political belief is a very critical position in the various references to modern democratic theory today (Cole, 1973). A very influential category in constructing political beliefs as a derivative of the level of public satisfaction with current government performance is socioeconomic factors, the personality of the President and Vice President, and national political satisfaction (Blais & Pruysers, 2017;Bynander & 't Hart, 2006;Cole, 1973;Dawkins, 2017).…”

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“…Referring to the thinking of the political beliefs of society, it is explained that the government born out of a fair electoral process with the support of a majority vote would result in high public expectations as well (Blais & Pruysers, 2017;Huddy, Mason, & Aarøe, 2015;Rudolph & Evans, 2005). Jokowi-JK as the ruler with the majority vote support has illustrated that they are the leader who is born from the majority of voters in Indonesia in 2014.…”

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Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Rivai

2017

J. Bina Praja

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This study aims to capture public appraisal, especially student groups as young voters. The public appraisal that will be captured relates to the satisfaction of young voters on the one-year performance of Jokowi -Jusuf Kalla government. Using a survey method, this study will be conducted on student groups at the Pancasila and Citizenship Education Study Program at Ahmad Dahlan University. The data collection was done by spreading the questionnaire which then being assessed with tabulation and correlation analysis. This study is expected to be the baseline data in the first year of Jokowi -Jusuf Kalla's reign as the basis for future leadership prediction analysis for the next four years. Thus, by knowing the basic pattern in the first year, can be analyzed how the trend of satisfaction and political beliefs of society until the end of Joko Widodo office. This study showed that the increase of politics and public administration in Indonesia after Joko Widodo's government. To sum up, this study assumed that there are so many improvement and development in Indonesia today.

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Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Rivai

2017

J. Bina Praja

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“…We look to prior work on ambition (Allen and Cutts, 2018;Blais and Pruysers, 2017) and political participation more generally (Mondak, 2010;Vecchione and Caprara, 2009) to inform our hypotheses. Beginning with interest in a political career, we have a number of hypotheses.…”

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“…Second, while two studies of personality and nascent political ambition have been conducted (Blais and Pruysers, 2017; Allen and Cutts, 2018), both explore the role of personality without controlling for any other factors. Our analysis, by contrast, considers the role of personality while controlling for a variety of other confounds, including gender, age, income, education, political interest and political knowledge.…”

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Why Do They Run? The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Ambition

2019

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What drives individuals toward a career in politics? Prior research on political ambition has often focused on socio-demographic variables while generally ignoring the importance of individual personality differences. Yet personality consistently predicts political knowledge, interest and participation, suggesting that individual differences may matter in addition to resources and the social environment. To this end, we assess the impact of both the HEXACO and Dark Triad models of personality in predicting nascent political ambition (that is, the initial desire to run for elected office) while controlling for well-established socio-demographic variables (for example, gender, income). Overall, we find considerable support for the predictive power of personality, especially the traits of honesty-humility, extraversion and narcissism. These results have important implications for understanding the kinds of people who are interested in a political career.

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“…Ashley Bell Jones notes that ambition plays an important role in the educational and career success and status of the individual, connects ambition with social courage of the individual [12]. J. Blais and S. Pruysers in their research, for example, try to identify which personal characteristics affect the development of political ambitions of undergraduated students [16].…”

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Self-esteem of the ambition of Russian and Turkmen students

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The article presents the results of a cross-cultural study of self-assessment of ambition of Russian and Turkmen students. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of self-esteem of ambition and the degree of its expression among students from different countries. The research was carried out using the questionnaire "Ambition" (OV Barsukova). The study involved 166 students aged 17-19 years: 94 Russian students and 72 Turkmen students. The majority of Russian students consider themselves to be more ambitious than ambitious people (48.94%), about a quarter of Russian students consider themselves to be unambitious people (25.53%), and a fifth - more un ambitious than ambitious people (21.28%) ), the minimum number - by undemanding people (4.26%). Most of the Russian students rate their ambition as moderate (51.056%), the minimum part of the students - as low (12.77%). On the whole, Russian students consider themselves ambitious rather than undemanding people and rate their ambition as moderate. The overwhelming majority of Turkmen students consider themselves to be ambitious people (83.33%), an insignificant part of students consider themselves to be more ambitious people than unambitious (11.11%) and undemanding people (5.56%). The majority of Turkmen students rate their ambition as high (61.11%), just over a quarter of them - as low (27.78%), the minimum number - as moderate (11.11%). In general, Turkmen students consider themselves ambitious and rate their ambition as high. A comparative analysis of the self-esteem of the ambition of Russian and Turkmen students was revealed according to the following indicators: the assessment of oneself as ambitious people prevails among Turkmen students, the assessment of oneself as people who are more ambitious than undemanding people prevails among Russian students, and the assessment of their ambition as moderate prevails among Russian students.

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The power of the dark side: personality, the dark triad, and political ambition

Cited by 47 publications

References 38 publications

Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Why Do They Run? The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Ambition

Self-esteem of the ambition of Russian and Turkmen students

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