Political Leadership in Morphogenetic Perspective (Studies in Politics, Security and Society)

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. Cover Acknowledgements Contents Introduction 1. Multi-dimensional understanding of the political sphere 1.1 Political reality in dialectical perspective 1.2 Methodological tools for the theory of politics 1.3 Syndromic understanding of the “matter of politics” 2. Dialectical interdependence of agency and structure 2.1 Subjective approach to the political space 2.2 Structural approach to the political space 2.3 Complementarity of subjective and structural models 3. Political subjectivity in the morphogenetic approach 3.1 Critical realism 3.2 Morphogenetic approach 3.3 Three-phasemorphogenetic cycle 3.4 Political agency in morphogenetic perspective 4. Understanding political leadership 4.1 The notion of political leadership 4.2 Political leadership paradigms and attributes of political leadership 5. The problem of the scope in political leadership 5.1 Multi-level political leadership 5.2 Micro-level political leadership theories 5.3 Macro-level political leadership theories 6. Morphogeneticcharacteristics of political leadership 6.1 Determinants of political agency in leadership 6.1.1 Endogenous factors 6.1.2 Exogenous factors 6.1.3 Dialectic of conditions 6.2 Morphogenesis of political leadership 6.2.1 Leszek Miller’s case – on the intensification of structured agent Conclusion References List of Figures Explanatory notes for key terms