USPP
Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics
Abstract
Personality Profile of 2008 Republican Presidential Contender Rudy Giuliani
Aubrey Immelman
and Catherine London
St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict
Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics
Dept. of Psychology
St. Joseph, MN 56374, U.S.A.
This research report presents the results of an analysis of the personality of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, contender for the Republican Party nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Mayor Giuliani was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Mr. Giuliani’s primary personality pattern was found to be Dominant/aggressive, with secondary features of the Conscientious/dutiful and Ambitious/confident patterns.
The combination of Dominant and Conscientious patterns in Giuliani’s profile suggests an aggressive enforcer personality composite. Leaders with this personality prototype are tough, uncompromising, and believe they have a moral duty to punish and control those who deviate from socially sanctioned norms.
Giuliani’s major personality strength in a leadership role is a forceful, commanding personality style that permits him to take charge in times of crisis and inspire public confidence. His major personality-based limitation is a tendency to control and punish, which may foster divisiveness and animosity.
The major implication of the study is that it offers an empirically based personological framework for anticipating Mr. Giuliani’s likely leadership style as chief executive, thus providing a basis for inferring the character and tenor of a prospective Giuliani presidency.
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