{"id":74624,"date":"2025-11-14T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-role-of-the-personal-factor-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:04:12","slug":"the-role-of-the-personal-factor-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-role-of-the-personal-factor-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of the personal factor in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is determined by the influence of individual characteristics: values, beliefs, emotions and cognitive abilities on the formation of political behavior and decision-making. Personal qualities are the basis of the political potential of a leader. However, the role of the personal factor in politics has different approaches:<br \/>\n1) Supporters of one approach assign a decisive role to the individual, substantiate it by the personal merits of leaders: political talent, abilities, knowledge, skills, personal authority.<br \/>\n2) Supporters of the other approach belittle the role of the individual in politics, believe that individual characteristics &#8220;extinguish&#8221; each other in large-scale political processes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is determined by the influence of individual characteristics: values, beliefs, emotions and cognitive abilities on the formation of political behavior and decision-making. Personal qualities are the basis of the political potential of a leader. However, the role of the personal factor in politics has different approaches: 1) Supporters of one approach assign a decisive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-16-key-psychological-concepts-in-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}