What is Political Leadership?

Political leadership is a notion fundamental to understanding ethnic processes and results, however its definition remains elusive. Many areas have led to the analysis of leadership, such as political theory, psychology, history, and management research. Political Direction reviews the gifts of the areas along with a discussion of this job of classic writers like Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, and Robert Michels.

Howard Elcock develops due to the many governing, governance, and allegiance functions political leaders perform and discusses the apparatus where their capacity to contribute effectively could be made better. He assesses the procedures of doubt decrease, increasing ingenuity, along with facilitation of learning. He concludes that the preoccupation with ‘new public management’ within the previous twenty five years has generated fundamental arguments about political and societal worth to be disregarded. Just a fresh focus on leadership and leaders, he asserts, can fix this issue and supply advice for leaders and politicians at a world of rapid and unpredictable change.

As a eminently readable book, this is welcomed by scholars of political history and science, public management and administration in addition to anybody involved, or having the interest, in government and politics.