Psychology of political leadership

Authors

  • Lyubov Dmitrievna Moshkina Author

Abstract

The article considers different approaches to the phenomenon of leadership.
A characterlogical approach highlights leader’s personal qualities; behavioral approach
studies leader’s actions and their connection with leadership effectiveness.
Leader’s power and influence is an approach in the leadership research which
studies types of power, connection of leadership power and success. A situational
approach underlines importance of such factors as authority and freedom of
leader’s actions as well as character of external environment. Theory of charismatic
leadership pays main attention to leader’s qualities and theory of implicit leadership
where leadership is perceived as subjective but not objective construct

Author Biography

  • Lyubov Dmitrievna Moshkina

    candidate of psychology, associate professor,
    Department of Marketing and Management, South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk,
    Russia). Sphere of scientific interests: political psychology, social psychology,
    communication psychology, psychology of personal equation, gender psychology

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Political Science