Cross-Cultural Variation in Political Leadership Styles

Abstract: Guided by gaps in the literature with regard to the study of politicians the aim of the research is to explore cross-cultural differences in political leaders’ style. It compares the MLQ (Avolio & Bass, 2004) scores of elected political leaders (N = 140) in Bulgaria and the UK. The statistical exploration of the data relied on multivariate analyses of covariance. The findings of comparisons across the two groups reveal that compared to British political leaders, Bulgarian leaders were more likely to frequently use both transactional and passive/avoidant behaviours. The study tests Bass’s (1997) strong assertion about the universality of transformational leadership. It contributes to the leadership literature by providing directly measured data relating to the behaviours of political leaders. Such information on the characteristics of politicians could allow for more directional hypotheses in subsequent research, exploring the contextual influences within transformational leadership.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1412

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Cross-Cultural Variation in Political Leadership Styles ; volume:13 ; number:4 ; day:30 ; month:11 ; year:2017 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 13, Heft 4 (30.11.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Petia Paramova ; Herbert Blumberg

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1412
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417040001390473
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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