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Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and behavior among political leaders across divergent cultures.

Valenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical methods from scholars around the world. While focused on American political leadership, the different approaches and vantage points offer fresh insights of the roles of cultural and political context, including the historical circumstance, environmental factors, and socialization agents that affect and shape American political leadership and performance. The highly unusual and valuable approach includes multidisciplinary perspectives with contributors from the fields of political science, political psychology, philosophy, sociology, and economics. Scholars, students, and researchers from a variety of disciplines will find the evaluations of the interaction between personality, leadership, decision making, and context invaluable.

This article explores the multidimensionality of the motivations that underlie partisan political activity, and the relationship between political motives and political ideology among activists. Using data from questionnaires submitted by over 3,300 California party activists over a 25-year period, it shows not only how motivational analysis may illuminate the basis of intraparty ideological conflict but also how that conflict is mitigated. More specifically, it indicates that while ideological differences between ambition-motivated and issue-motivated activists may be acute, focusing exclusively on those differences may distract us from the organizationally salutary fact that activists' motivations are more variegated and complex than that.

INTERNET VOTING SEEMS TO BE AN ATTRACTIVE WAY to increase turnout and reduce error. But voting on the Web offers more chances than conventional voting for corruption and coercion. And, the U.S. presidential election could be the target of the world's terrorists.

\"Political Leadership for the New Century: Personality and Behavior among American Leaders\" edited by Linda O. Valenty and Ofer Feldman is reviewed.