Political leadership: a study of the constituents and constraints

Abstract

Political leadership plays a pivotal role in different countries and at different stages, and its influence increases whenever these leaders are closer to the positions of political decision-making in particular, or he is responsible for the formulation of the State's general policy, and by which the political and social systems are affected. The leader himself is a source of the centrality of the leadership action through his characteristics that help effectively in strengthening his role positively from the point of view of the followers, the laws that support him, the strategies he adopts that translate his goals and many other factors that together constitute enormous influences in the progress of the leadership process equally. Some impact negatively the tasks of the leaders on the personal level, and there are on the other level elements and obstacles that are beyond the will and control of these leaders, and which are linked to each other by a relationship that links them to other fields, forming a network of mutual influence among them and on the leadership as well.