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"Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world. Globalization is now perceived as a threatening and hostile force, with many of its advocates and political supporters turning away from it, but its processes cannot be reversed. New powers emerge, old ones re-emerge, and uncertainty about the future global order is increasing. This book tells the inside stories of global power games and asks important questions about the leadership crisis in the Western world. The author provides an interpretative framework for contemporary shifts within the Western political sphere based on the concept of global leadership. This framework presents the nature of the transformations caused by global processes, as part of which force and coercion have ceased to be the main modus operandi of the international realm. The issue of global political leadership is virtually absent from IR literature, while being widely exploited by managerial and organizational studies. However, all social organizations have 'gone global' within the last 30 years; they are more interconnected and more dependent on global processes, so the question of effective leadership strategies matching these new realities is highly necessary, even-or especially-at a time when globalization is no longer seen as a leading political program. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global affairs, politics and international relations, leadership and development, and diplomatic studies"--

Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world.

Globalization is now perceived as a threatening and hostile force, with many of its advocates and political supporters turning away from it, but its processes cannot be reversed. New powers emerge, old ones re-emerge, and uncertainty about the future global order is increasing. This book tells the inside stories of global power games and asks important questions about the leadership crisis in the western world. The author provides an interpretative framework for contemporary shifts within the western political sphere based on the concept of global leadership. This framework presents the nature of the transformation caused by global processes, as part of which force and coercion have ceased to be the main modus operandi of the international realm. The issue of global political leadership has often been neglected in international relations literature, while being widely exploited by managerial and organizational studies. However, all social organizations have 'gone global' within the last several decades; they are more interconnected and more dependent on global processes, so the question of effective leadership strategies matching these new realities is highly necessary, even – or especially – at a time when globalization is no longer seen as a leading political programme.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global affairs, politics and international relations, leadership and development, and diplomatic studies.

Discusses the leadership qualities of Australia's president John Howard. Applies psychological theory to highlight some of Howard's leadership characteristics. Adapted from the source document.

We test the contribution of sex differences in physical formidability, education, and cooperation to the acquisition of political leadership in a small-scale society. Among forager-farmers from the Bolivian Amazon, we find that men are more likely to exercise different forms of political leadership, including verbal influence during community meetings, coordination of community projects, and dispute resolution. We show that these differences in leadership are not due to gender per se but are associated with men's greater number of cooperation partners, greater access to schooling, and greater body size and physical strength. Men's advantage in cooperation partner number is tied to their participation in larger groups and to the opportunity costs of women's intrahousehold labor. We argue these results highlight the mutual influence of sexual selection and the sexual division of labor in shaping how women and men acquire leadership.

FOR many centuries the pattern of political leadership in India was two-tiered. At the top was "the Government" — what I will call macropolitical leadership — surrounded with pomp and magnificence and all the trappings of wealth and power. Macropolitical leadership changed hands with some frequency, and in modern times was often foreign, first Mughal and then British. In general the macropolitical leadership impinged little on the lives of the ordinary Indian. It was remote from the village and interfered seldom in village affairs, except to raise revenue and maintain a relative law and order. Village India had its own ancient pattern of leadership — what I will call micropolitical leadership. The village was a highly traditional and rigid social and political unit. The higher castes within the village combined social, economic, political, and ritual pre-eminence, and the lower castes tended to be dependent on them to a greater or lesser degree. The Indian village was a complicated network of precedence and relationship, but political authority was concentrated in the leaders of the dominant castes. These men were concerned with settling disputes between communities in the village, protecting the village and its lands from outsiders, and gaining concessions for the village from the macropolitical leadership.

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the effects of these reforms on women's political leadership are largely unknown. We exploit a natural experiment—a 50–50 quota imposed by the national board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party on 290 municipal branches—to examine quotas' influence on women's selection to, and survival in, top political posts. We find that those municipalities where the quota had a larger impact became more likely to select (but not reappoint) female leaders. Extending this analysis, we show that the quota increased the number of women perceived as qualified for these positions. Our findings support the notion that quotas can have an acceleration effect on women's representation in leadership positions, particularly when they augment the pool of female candidates for these posts. These results help dispel the myth that quotas trade short-term gains in women's descriptive representation for long-term exclusion from political power.

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Classical theories of political leadership -- pt. 3. Contemporary theories of political leadership -- pt. 4. Studies of national political leadership -- pt. 5. Studies of international organization and global issues leadership -- pt. 6. Studies of political leadership and society -- pt. 7. The future of political leadership.

An authoritative account of the European Commission presidency and the political leadership performance of its incumbents throughout the process of the European integration.

We test the contribution of sex differences in physical formidability, education, and cooperation to the acquisition of political leadership in a small-scale society. Among forager-farmers from the Bolivian Amazon, we find that men are more likely to exercise different forms of political leadership, including verbal influence during community meetings, coordination of community projects, and dispute resolution. We show that these differences in leadership are not due to gender per se but are associated with men's greater number of cooperation partners, greater access to schooling, and greater body size and physical strength. Men's advantage in cooperation partner number is tied to their participation in larger groups and to the opportunity costs of women's intrahousehold labor. We argue these results highlight the mutual influence of sexual selection and the sexual division of labor in shaping how women and men acquire leadership.

Le concept du leadership politiqueLe concept du leadership politique n'est qu'une des nombreuses catégories de leadership. Et il est particulièrement difficile à cerner. Psychologues et sociologues ont depuis longtemps étudié le phénomène du leadership mais, outre qu'ils ne sont pas parvenus à l'élucider de façon satisfaisante, leur problématique ignore des composantes majeures du leadership politique. Néanmoins, il paraît acquis que le leadership est une relation entre dirigeants et subordonnés et que c'est comme processus de groupe que cette relation se prête le mieux à l'étude. L'article examine sous cette optique le leadership politique comme phénomène interpersonnel et social et tente de montrer les conditions requises pour son exercice. Quel que soit l'angle sous lequel on la considère, la relation de leadership reproduit un processus circulaire, dirigeants et subordonnés s'influençant mutuellement dans la production des manifestations du groupe. Cette idée sen d'hypothèse centrale pour l'examen des traits caractéristiques du leadership politique à tous les niveaux : du leader, de ses lieutenants et des simples membres. Plusieurs questions apparaissent ainsi sous un nouveau jour, notamment celles de l'influence relative des traits personnels et de la situation dans la production du leader, de la nature du leadership au sein de l'organisation bureaucratique et des conditions de « dramaturgic » qui accompagnent l'exercice du leadership. La distinction entre leadership comme style de commandement et comme modèle d'organisation de l'autorité ouvre aussi sur des voies prometteuses pour la connaissance du phénomène. Cette distinction est notamment précieuse dans l'examen des conditions d'exercice du leadership, qu'il s'agisse du choix des dirigeants, du contrôle réciproque des dirigeants et des simples membres ou encore des styles de leadership, démocratique ou autoritaire. Il serait souhaitable que les études du leadership politique tiennent davantage compte des ouvrages biographiques qui nous apprennent comment les grands leaders ont perçu leurs fonctions, leurs rapports avec les hommes et la vie politique.

The image and style of political leaders are important elements of leadership, and of politics generally. They are related to both political culture and institutions, and are framed in ritual and ceremony. In democratic polities, where there is choice rather than coercion, the mediation of leadership/people relations creates imagined relationships between imagined leaders and their equally imagined interlocutors, the people or the electorate (who also, of course, actually exist). These relationships form part of the political process. By identifying, and adapting, classical Aristotelian distinctions in rhetorical studies, we can better understand this element or moment of the process, in particular the creation of an imagined intimacy in contemporary politics between leaders and followers. Political science should draw upon other disciplines and subdisciplines such as politicai psychology, cultural studies, rhetorical analysis, and social anthropology in order to understand how mediated relationships are inscribed into political institutions and exchange. (Parliamentary Affairs / FUB)