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Political Leadership: Themes, Contexts and Critiques

The book draws upon ten years of intensive, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research into the political and analytical issues generated by the multidimensional phenomenon of leadership. The project required very considerable investment of sustained research activity in achieving the necessary depth of engagement with the voluminous and segmented materials that characterize the domain. By combining observational range and analytical rigour with empirical, theoretical and interpretive insights, the study produces a reconstructive synthesis that is unprecedented in scope and design. It features an innovative methodology that takes account of the intersections between historical-biographical strands, social science approaches, normative-ethical dimensions, and domestic-international categories.