Cross-cultural variation in political leadership styles
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Paramova, Petia
Blumberg, Herbert
Abstract / Description
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 theory. The outcomes might also aid applied fields. Knowledge gained of culturally different leaders could be welcomed by multicultural political and economic unions, wherein understanding and allowances might aid communication.
Keyword(s)
leadership political leadership transformational leadership transactional leadership passive/avoidant leadership MLQ cross-culturalPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2017-11-30
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
13
Issue
4
Page numbers
749–766
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Paramova, P., & Blumberg, H. (2017). Cross-cultural variation in political leadership styles. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 749–766. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1412
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Paramova, Petia
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Blumberg, Herbert
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Date of first publication2017-11-30
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Abstract / DescriptionGuided 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 theory. The outcomes might also aid applied fields. Knowledge gained of culturally different leaders could be welcomed by multicultural political and economic unions, wherein understanding and allowances might aid communication.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationParamova, P., & Blumberg, H. (2017). Cross-cultural variation in political leadership styles. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 749–766. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1412
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1079
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1271
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1412
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Keyword(s)leadershipen_US
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Keyword(s)political leadershipen_US
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Keyword(s)transformational leadershipen_US
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Keyword(s)transactional leadershipen_US
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Keyword(s)passive/avoidant leadershipen_US
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Keyword(s)MLQen_US
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Keyword(s)cross-culturalen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleCross-cultural variation in political leadership stylesen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue4
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers749–766
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Volume13
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record