Political leadership in industrialized societies: studies in comparative analysis

An invaluable series of original, comparative studies by leading scholars The various essays examine patterns of political leadership in all major in dustrialized societies, using a variety of sophisticated theories and analytic methods and drawing extensive data from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, the Philippines, and Communist countries.

The book makes two major contributions:

1) It presents a series of comparative studies of general and specific aspects of leadership, authority, and political behavior patterns in the major indus trialized societies of the world-cutting across Western and non-Western Communist and non-Communist, democratic and authoritarian political systems.

2) It offers a variety of methods for comparing political leadership patterns, including psychoanalysis, historical sociology, and quantitative political science.

The articles cut right to the heart of political analysis and examine both new and old issues relating to who leads or should lead... why some men have high political influence and others do not how individuals obtain polit ical power and lose it and how the relationship between leaders and followers varies according to time and place. The authors also raise the question of convergence, divergence, or parallel development of political leadership patterns in Communist and non-Communist systems.