Academic Researcher
on Public and Political Leadership
on Public and Political Leadership
‘It is easier to believe in leadership than to prove it’
James R. Meindl (1990: 161)
James R. Meindl (1990: 161)
We cannot understand leadership without studying followers. However, many focus only on the perceived characteristics and style of leaders. As the Pulitzer Prize-winning political scientist James McGregor Burns (1978: 1) observed, '[i]f we know too much about our leaders, we know far too little about leadership'.
As a researcher and academic lecturer, I seek to combine political science, social psychology, and sociology approaches, methods and findings to unpack and understand the complex and dynamic relationships between leaders and followers. My main goal is to establish a follower-centred research agenda in political science. In this sense, my research also covers the relationship between populism and charisma at the level of both followers and leaders, the sectarianisation of political communities, moral panics and euphoria.
As a researcher and academic lecturer, I seek to combine political science, social psychology, and sociology approaches, methods and findings to unpack and understand the complex and dynamic relationships between leaders and followers. My main goal is to establish a follower-centred research agenda in political science. In this sense, my research also covers the relationship between populism and charisma at the level of both followers and leaders, the sectarianisation of political communities, moral panics and euphoria.
