Political Leadership as a Form of Expression of Public Expectations

Vladimir Galanov, Alexandra Galanova and Katarína Hercegová ()
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Vladimir Galanov: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Katarína Hercegová: Prague Business School

A chapter in Leadership for the Future Sustainable Development of Business and Education, 2018, pp 169-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of political leadership from the standpoint of morality and the dominant model of the political system in the developed countries of the world. Leadership is a necessary element of the management system of any organized human activity. The leader is the head of the team aimed at fulfilling the common goal. If the goal is directly related to the interests of society as a whole, then such a leader is a political leader. Political leadership becomes possible only if a person expresses the interests of certain groups (segments) of society. But since there is no unity of interests in the society, the leader has a risk of political leadership. Leaders often succeed each other in the course of an acute political struggle due to the organization of the country’s political system. Therefore, no continuity of their political goals is usually possible. The only exception is the political organization of the society in which the leader has the opportunity to remain in office for a period of 10–20 years. The realization of really meaningful social goals is possible only at such terms measured by the life expectancy of generations of people. Short-term performance of the political leader is a political reason for the fact that society develops spontaneously and randomly. Only the long-term functioning of the leader or the continuity of the political goals of successive leaders is the political basis for such social development when society itself manages its development.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74216-8_18

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