Political Leadership

Code Cours
2223-ESPOL-DIV-EN-2002
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Francisco Ramón Villaplana Jiménez
Period

Présentation

Modalités

Forms of instruction
  • The course is taught through lectures, 4 compulsory readings and practical excercises in the classroom.
  • Lectures: take place once a week (Monday 4pm-6pm), and altogether there are 9 ex-cathedra lectures of 2h each.
Evaluation
Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

Ressources

Bibliography

Aarts, Kees, André Blais & Hermann Schmitt (eds.) (2013). Political Leaders and Democratic Elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.|| Blondel, Jean (1987). Political Leadership: Towards a General Analysis. London: Sage.|| Bynander, Fredrik & ’t Hart, Paul (2006). When Power Changes Hands: The Political Psychology of Leadership Succession in Democracies. Political Psychology, 27 (5): 707-730.|| Campus, Donatella (2013). Women Political Leaders and the Media. London: Palgrave Macmillan.|| Goleman, Daniel (2013). What makes a leader: Why emotional intelligence matters. Florence: More Than Sound.|| Helms, Ludger (ed.) (2012). Comparative Political Leadership. London: Palgrave Macmillan.|| Kellerman, Barbara (2004). Bad leadership. What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.|| Mearsheimer, John J. (2011). Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.|| Rhodes, Roderik. A.W. & ’t Hart, Paul (eds.) (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press.|| Sørensen, Eva (2020). Interactive Political Leadership: The Role of Politicians in the Age of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.