The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine

  • Received 19.04.2023,
  • Revised 10.05.2023,
  • Accepted 23.05.2023
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Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023
  • political professional activity; political leader/leader; motives of political professional activity; motive of power; motive of achievement; motive of affiliation; content analysis
  • https://doi.org/10.33099/2617-6858-2023-73-3-149-157
  • Pages 149-157

The article analyzes the results of an empirical study of the motives of the professional activity of politicians, namely: the motives and their quantitative interaction in the speeches of political áctors are singled out and evaluated; an attractive motivational profile of the political áctor for Ukrainian society during the 2014 and 2019 elections was revealed; how exactly the priority of this or that motive affects the political activity and political behavior of the political áctor is analyzed.

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