Ideologies and modern politics

Rejai, Mostafa

Christenson, Reo M.

Jacobs, Dan N.

Harper&Row

What motivates political leaders to seek office? What social backgrounds do political leaders exhibit? Are all leaders fundamentally alike or do we find important differences between them? These and related questions concerning political leadership are examined in this unique new work. The authors concentrate on two principal types of political leaders: Loyalists, those who seek office through peaceful processes, whether appointive or elective; and Revolutionaries, those who seize power in violent ways. By systematically comparing the similarities and differences between these two groups, Rejai and Phillips find that Loyalists and Revolutionaires are basically the same type of person. However, their most significant differences lie in their relative access to positions of power and authority within their respective societies.

Loyalists and Revolutionaries: Political Leaders Compared

Politics & Social Sciences

Phillips, Kay

Social Sciences

Praeger

Focusing on 45 military leaders from four continents and 13 countries, spread across four centuries, this study paints, for the first time, a collective, comparative portrait of high-ranking military officers. The authors develop an interactional theory of military leaders, stressing the interplay between sociodemographic variables, psychological dynamics, and situational factors. They examine age and birthplace, socioeconomic status, family life, ethnicity and religion, education and occupation, activities and experiences, and ideologies and attitudes. They find military leaders to be a remarkably coherent and homogeneous group of men propelled toward the military by a combination of nationalism, imperialism, relative deprivation, love deprivation, marginality, and vanity.

World Military Leaders: A Collective and Comparative Analysis

History

Philips, Kay

Military

Three interrelated objectives provide the subject of this study: to cover a wide range of topics on leaders and leadership; to present up-to-date treatments of those topics; and to offer extensive bibliographies for further study and research. The opening chapter defines leadership. Subsequent chapters treat the relationship between leaders and followers and the prerequisite skills of leaders; transforming leaders, transactional leaders, and military leaders; the motivations of leaders; the functions of leaders; comparative studies of leaders; women as leaders; and research frontiers in the study of leadership. This study should prove very useful for political scientists, for sociologists, and for military historians and professionals.

Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory and Research

Having established a persuasive conception of leadership, Rejai and Phillips apply it to major thinkers from Plato to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. They find a major shift in leadership theory associated with World War II. Prewar theories are seen as limited and defective in that they posit a vision on the part of the leader and his ability to impose that vision on the followers; postwar theories stress, in addition, a shared vision and leader-follower interaction.
A leader's view of leadership, Rejai and Phillips find, is constrained by the person's conception of human nature; the lighter the conception of human nature, the more flexible the nature of leadership; the darker the view of human nature, the more rigid the nature of leadership. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with political theory and leadership studies.

Concepts of Leadership in Western Political Thought

Philosophy

From the Preface: This short book has three interrelated objectives. First, it sets out to develop a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies. Second, it examines some of the most prominent political ideologies of our times. Finally, it applies the framework to the ideologies discussed.

Comparative Political Ideologies

St.Martin's

Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach: A Comparative Approach

This book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies. The author uses the framework to examine the major political ideologies of our time: nationalism, fascism, Marxism, Leninism, guerilla communism, and democracy (including democratic socialism, democratic capitalism, liberalism, and conservatism). A chapter is devoted to each ideology. The book concludes with a discussion of the differences between political ideology, theory and philosophy and of the question of the "decline of ideology". Throughout, the book assumes no prior knowledge of political ideologies.

Routledge

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines the most prominent political ideologies of modern time. This revised edition has been enlarged to include feminism and environmentalism.

Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach

Politics & Government

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Ideologies and modern politics

Loyalists and Revolutionaries: Political Leaders Compared

World Military Leaders: A Collective and Comparative Analysis

Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory and Research

Concepts of Leadership in Western Political Thought

Comparative Political Ideologies

Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach: A Comparative Approach

Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach: A Comparative Approach

Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach