Margaret Hermann
Professor, Political Science
Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs
Degree
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965
Specialties
Political leadership, foreign policy decision making, crisis management, influence of non-state actors on foreign policy, comparative foreign policy
Biography
Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer
Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for
assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and has
such data on over 300 leaders. She is
currently involved in exploring the effects of different types of leaders and
decision processes on the management of crises that cross borders and
boundaries as well as lead governments to experience crises. Her leadership style measures have also been
applied to leaders of terrorist organizations, transnational NGOs and
international organizations as well as senior level executives.
Hermann has been president of the International
Society of Political Psychology and the International Studies Association as
well as editor of Political Psychology and the International Studies
Review. She developed the Summer
Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. She has
received an honorary doctorate from DePauw University and in 2017 was awarded
the William Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching.
Among her books are Describing Foreign Policy
Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues
and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in
Foreign Policymaking. Her journal
articles and book chapters include Using Content Analysis to Study Public
Figures; Transboundary Crises through the Eyes of Policymakers; The Experiment
and Foreign Policy Decision Making; Leadership, Terrorism, and the Use of
Violence; Political Psychology and the Study of Political Leadership; and
Leadership and Behavior in Humanitarian and Development Transnational
Non-Governmental Organizations.