Wellsprings of Political Leadership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3353973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Macgregor Burns (Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 266-275 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1956968 |
| OpenAlex | W4255935430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
To develop a general theory of leadership we must locate the function of political leadership in a theory of historical causation. One may begin by identifying sources of leadership in the wants and needs, aspirations and expectations, of humankind. In helping to gratify these "motive-bases," leaders move followers "up" the hierarchy of needs and other motivations and thus create new social configurations in which leaders act. As persons-especially children-move "up" through stages of morality, they also create structures of values that both empower and constrain would-be leaders. Leadership over human beings is exercised when would-be leaders, possessing certain motives of their own, mobilize their own psychological, institutional, pohtical, and other resources relevant to potential followers' motive bases in such a way as to satisfy the motives of both leaders and followers. The test of leadership is the achievement of goals of both leaders and followers in a context of open conflict over ends and means, with leaders and followers mutually and freely defining their values and purposes
Context (archaeology · Function (biology · Hierarchy · Morality · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Shared leadership · Sociology · Transactional leadership · Transformational leadership · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |