- Docente: Sofia Ventura
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs (cod. 9247)
Also valid for Campus of Bologna
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 8784)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to analyse the phenomenon of political leadership, both from a general and theoretical point of view and from the perspective of its role in contemporary and presidentialized democracies. At the end of the course students are supposed to be able to describe and analyse the relationships among political institutions, political parties and political leaders and their transformations, as well as to evaluate how these transformations influence the working of democratic political systems.
Course contents
- Leaders and political leadership
- The leader and the followers: charisma and soft power, transactional and transformative leadership
- Styles and psychology of political leaders
- The presidentialization of politics and the “audience democracy”
- Leadership and populism
- Leadership and the mediatisation of politics
Readings/Bibliography
1) B. Manin, Principes du gouvernement réprésentatif, Paris, Flammarion, 2012, chapitre VI.
2) P.-J. Maarek, La communication et le marketing de l'homme politique, LEXISNEXIS, 4ème édition, 2014 (première partie)
3) C. Salmon, La Cérémonie Cannibale. De la performance politique, Paris, Fayard, 2013.
Other readings will be distributed in classTeaching methods
Teaching lessons and seminars
Assessment methods
All students will be evaluated on the basis of participation in class discussions (40 per cent) and the elaboration of a written work (4 open questions) at the end of the course (60%).
Teaching tools
Power point, video
Office hours
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