Profiling foreign policy leaders in their own language: New insights into the stability and formation of leadership traits. (May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rabini, Christian; Brummer, Klaus; Dimmroth, Katharina; Hansel, Mischa
• Is Part Of: British journal of politics and international relations. Volume 22:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 256
• Page End: 273
• Publication Date: 2020-05
• Subjects: automated content analysis -- coding schemes -- foreign policy analysis -- German foreign policy -- leadership traits -- profiler plus; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007 -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945- -- Periodicals; 320.094105
• DOI: 10.1177/1369148120910984
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-1481

Abstract

Leaders matter in international politics. One of the main tools for assessing at-a-distance psychological characteristics of political leaders is Leadership Trait Analysis. To facilitate empirical studies, a Leadership Trait Analysis coding scheme for automated text analysis was developed to replace hand-coding. However, the coding scheme has been available only for English-language texts. To broaden research opportunities, this article presents a novel Leadership Trait Analysis coding scheme for the German language. This coding scheme allows engaging in empirical analysis based on original German language sources, thereby shedding new or different light on German foreign policy. At the same time, it contributes to moving automated content analysis beyond the English language more generally.