In this article I advance the argument that political scientists and students of
leadership should engage with each other more extensively. In the first part of
the article I look at some of the reasons why political scientists may have
treated the phenomenon of leadership with suspicion in the past despite the
resurgence of interest in issues associated with leadership in the last 20
years. In the second part of the article I sketch some key dimensions of
political leadership and examine a selection of the key political science
writings (including some recent ones) on the subject. In the third part of the
article I suggest some areas where leadership studies and political science have
a mutual research agenda and where gaps in our knowledge might be remedied by
collaborative work between the disciplines.
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