Methoden vergleichen

	Leadership Trait Analysis	Content Analysis of Political Speeches
Fachgebiet	International Relations	International Relations
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1980	2013
Urheber	Margaret G. Hermann	Content-analysis tradition; computational treatment by Justin Grimmer & Brandon Stewart
Typ	Content-analytic personality profiling of leaders	Systematic coding and computational analysis of political text
Wegweisende Quelle	Hermann, M. G. (1980). Explaining foreign policy behavior using the personal characteristics of political leaders. International Studies Quarterly, 24(1), 7–46.	Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). Text as data: The promise and pitfalls of automatic content analysis methods for political texts. Political Analysis, 21(3), 267–297.
Aliasnamen	LTA, Personality Profiling at a Distance, Hermann Leadership Trait Analysis, Foreign-Policy Leadership Profiling	Political Speech Content Analysis, Foreign-Policy Text Analysis, Quantitative Speech Analysis in IR, At-a-Distance Speech Coding
Verwandt	3	3
Zusammenfassung	Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA), developed by Margaret Hermann (1980), profiles political leaders' personalities from their spoken words to explain and anticipate foreign-policy behavior. It scores seven characteristics — the belief in one's ability to control events, the need for power, conceptual complexity, self-confidence, distrust of others, in-group bias, and task focus — from patterns in a leader's verbal material, norms them against reference groups, and combines them into broader leadership styles. It is a leading at-a-distance method for assessing leaders who cannot be interviewed or tested directly.	Content analysis of political speeches turns the public words of foreign-policy actors — leaders' addresses, UN General Assembly statements, parliamentary debates, press briefings — into systematic, comparable measures. Spanning classic human-coded content analysis and modern text-as-data methods surveyed by Grimmer and Stewart (2013), it lets researchers quantify what leaders say: their threat perceptions, hostility, cooperative or conflictual orientation, issue priorities, and rhetorical positions, so that rhetoric can be tracked over time, compared across actors, and related to behavior.