Is there already a number for leadership?

We checked before we built. The frameworks that came before Polipad — and the gap they left.

Jul 3, 2026 · 8 min read · Context

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Greenstein's six presidential dimensions

Placeholder — communicator, organizer, political skill, vision, cognitive style, emotional intelligence.

Hermann's Leadership Trait Analysis (at-a-distance scoring)

Placeholder — scoring leaders from their spontaneous speech.

The Leadership Capital Index and the Bio-Index

Placeholder — later attempts to quantify political capital and biography.

What the academy does well

Placeholder — rigor, peer review, decades of refinement.

The gap: none of it is voter-facing, state-specific, or live

Placeholder — the research never reached the ballot box.

Where Polipad fits

Placeholder — voter-facing, state-specific, continuously updated, fully sourced.

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