Political Leadership in Morphogenetic Perspective

Filip Pierzchalski, Miroslaw Karwat, Marcin Tobiasz

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783653071818
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain. In morphogenesis, the subjective matrix of leadership keeps the division into private and public exposure, as well as individual and collective realization, which in fact means that the phenomenon of political leadership directly depends on the reality of the agent and structure. The author offers a new point of view for his primary research goal, which is a precise and systematic explication of the notion of political leadership in the morphogenetic scope.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Multi-dimensional understanding of the political sphere
• 2. Dialectical interdependence of agency and structure
• 3. Political subjectivity in the morphogenetic approach
• 4. Understanding political leadership
• 5. The problem of the scope in political leadership
• 6. Morphogeneticcharacteristics of political leadership
• Conclusion
• References
• List of Figures
• Explanatory notes for key terms