Concepts of Leadership in Western Political Thought

by Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027597801X
• ISBN13: 9780275978013
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.7"