personalistic

Examples

• All

• His personalistic view of leadership focused on building strong relationships with each team member.

• The democratic constitutions and parliamentary forms hastily transplanted by colonial rulers were rapidly supplanted by a variety of personalistic, single-party, or military regimes.

  Academic text (1992)

• Yet, being a personalistic party, it seemed able to survive if its leader remained popular and wanted to keep the party.

  Academic text (1993)

• A final factor that influences the study of public opinion in Russia is the personalistic way that some researchers treat the survey data.

  Academic text (1998)

• The 1991-1995 legislature will have these personalistic groups in abundance, perhaps more than ever before.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the military period, decision-making had been closed, personalistic, and centralized at the top of the executive.

  Academic text (1999)

• There is nothing new about personalistic political movements in Brazil, nor is there anything unusual about politicians building supra-party bases of support.

  Academic text (1991)

• The agrarian reform also extended the reach of civil authority and the law into areas formerly under the personalistic authority of patriarchal landlords.

  Academic text (2001)

• Politically, this represents an unorthodox but nonetheless real form of "rent capture" and reflects the personalistic, patron-client nature of the New Order.

  Academic text (1999)

• Whatever biomedically oriented in-service training the CNAs receive does not replace the personalistic health belief systems they employ during each hour of their shift.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

I

individualistic

vspersonalistic

10 6.7

Preferring to act or think independently and be different

focuses on the importance of people and close relationships rather than systems

S

subjectivistic

vspersonalistic

• Specialized

1 9.9

Putting personal feelings and opinions before facts

values people and relationships rather than private feelings or factual claims

Antonyms

S

systematic

81 4.6

Done in a careful planned way

A

to abstract

6 7.3

To think about something in a general way without details

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology