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Power holders: one versus many. Leadership and elite theories

Krzysztof Zuba

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leadershipSociology and Political ScienceDivergence (linguistics)05 social sciences0506 political scienceEpistemologyPower (social and political)power holderscomparison0502 economics and businessElite050602 political science & public administrationeliteSociologytheoretical gapQualitative content analysisDialog boxSocial psychology050203 business & management

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‘Leadership’ and ‘elites’ are two crucial concepts that refer to individuals who hold power within a community. The aim of the article was to demonstrate to what extent the two concepts and theories are linked with each other in the literature. A quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the encyclopedic and dictionary entries demonstrates a divergence of approaches: on the one hand, a fundamental separation between the two theories, while on the other hand, a tendency to identify the one with the other. This shows the need for much more dialog between the frameworks of these two closely related phenomena.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-05-03Journal of Political Power
https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2016.1191221