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Bezio, Kristin M.S.; Goethals, George R.

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“…A first criticism of this focus is that charisma as a notion does not allow for the kind of definitional clarity it is generally associated with (Mudde, 2007: 262, cited in Pappas, 2016: 378); another is that it tends to negate the long tradition of leaderless populism (McDonnell, 2017; Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser, 2014); and a third is that it glosses over the internal contradiction between ‘charismatic leader’ and populism as ‘an expression of popular will’ (Galito, 2018: 57, cited in Bezio and Goethals, 2018: 508).…”

Section: Totalitarian and Populist Leadershipmentioning

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Leadership and populism: A parallel reading of Hannah Arendt and Franz Neumann

Sanders

2019

Leadership

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Populism was the Cambridge Dictionary's new word of the year 2017. The surge in interest reflects recent events such as the UK Brexit referendum, the arrival of Donald Trump at the helm of the US presidency, or the electoral victories of self-styled anti-establishment leaders throughout Europe and the World. The first part of this article explores the scientific status of populism. It concludes that the widespread use of populism as a term obscures a number of epistemic and conceptual limitations, arguing that 'trouble-in-democracy' is the more pertinent and more penetrating lens. The configuration of this populism focus has consequences on the definition of populist leadership, which is dominated by the notion of charisma. Through engagement with Hannah Arendt and her fellow exile Franz Neumann the article proposes an alternative phenomenological framework for apprehending populist leadership. To do this, it relies on the analogies between populist and totalitarian leadership. Finally, it maps out the priority areas for the deployment of populist discourse and practice, arguing that this is where non-populist (responsible) leaders should be focusing their efforts.

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Leadership and populism: A parallel reading of Hannah Arendt and Franz Neumann

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2019

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“…Amidst a global pandemic, widespread calls for systemic change to address social inequalities and the urgent need to tackle climate change, our political leaders are under constant scrutiny. In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in populist leaders in politics who exploit public dissatisfaction with those in power (Bezio and Goethals, 2018), prompting calls for leadership scholars to 'reveal the scaffolding' behind the political spectacle of populist leaders like Trump to better understand what is happening (Ladkin, 2020). Responding to this challenge, we apply Bourdieu's concept of capital to examine how political candidates mobilize different forms of capital to persuade others of their leadership legitimacy.…”

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Leadership legitimacy and the mobilization of capital(s): Disrupting politics and reproducing heteronormativity

2021

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The rise of populist leaders in the political sphere mounts a challenge to normative understandings of leadership. To better understand this challenge, we examine how political leaders mobilize different forms of social capital in pursuit of leadership legitimacy, providing insight into the dynamics of how leadership norms are maintained. While research has tended to focus on specific forms of capital, this article considers capital as multidimensional and strategically mobilized. The article applies a multimodal analysis to examine interactions between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during peak ‘Twitter Moments’ of the three 2016 presidential election debates. We theorize the paradoxical dynamics of the mobilization of multiple capitals and their intersection as a simultaneously disruptive and reproductive resource. While the mobilization of multiple capitals operates to disrupt traditional notions of who can claim legitimacy as a leader in the political field, their disruptive mobilization serves to reproduce implicit heteronormative leadership values. Hence, our theorization illuminates the resilience of implicit leadership values, and their intimate connection with heteronormativity, calling for the need to interrogate leadership legitimacy claims that promise ‘new’ approaches.

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Introduction

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Leadership and populism: A parallel reading of Hannah Arendt and Franz Neumann

Leadership and populism: A parallel reading of Hannah Arendt and Franz Neumann

Leadership legitimacy and the mobilization of capital(s): Disrupting politics and reproducing heteronormativity

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