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The Systematic Analysis of Political Biography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Morris Janowitz
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Extract

Biographical analysis has been a traditional device by which historians and social scientists have sought to relate changes in social structure to political developments. All too often, the richness of personal detail has been hung on a “great man” theory of history, without regard to the key leadership groups involved.

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World Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , April 1954 , pp. 405 - 412
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1954

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References

1 Janowitz, Morris, “The Professional Soldier and Political Power,” Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan, Institute of Public Administration, 1953, 53 pp.Google Scholar