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Julia Jennstål
Julia.jennstal@statsvet.uu.se
Department of Government
Overview
Three theoretical questions
Ø Action dispensibility (actor or structure?)
Ø Action dispensibility (situation or person?)
Ø Cause or consequence?
ACTION DISPENSIBILITY?
The actor or the structure?
ACTOR DISPENSIBILITY?
Would it have been the same with Jimmy Carter?
Boris Jeltsin and Bill Clinton
The situation or the person?
CAUSE OR EFFECT?
The cause or the consequences?
Causes Consequences
Leadership is the independent Leadership is the dependent
variable variable
• What ‘works’ and when? • Who becomes a leader?
• Can the lessons be copied • How do they consolidate their
elsewhere? power?
• How do individuals matter? • How are leaders selected
• What individual characteristics
(skills, traits, background)
matters?
The empirical components of leadership:
• Culture
• Political system
• Recruitment process
• Nature of the situation
Followers
A struggle about
legitimacy
Focusing on the Leader
LEADERSHIP STYLES
The Leader
Three methodological approaches:
UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP
• Analytical perspectives – contexts, situations, actors,
persons, cause and consequences
• Theoretical approaches – behaviorism, social
psychology, individual psychology, affect psychology
• Defining components – context, leaders, followers and
the relationship between them
• Leadership styles – pragmatic, transformational,
crusaders, etc.
- Different styles useful in different situations!