Politikai vezetés és kollektív cselekvés
Political Leadership and Collective Action

Summary/Abstract: The paper raises the classical question on how leadership functions, but re interprets it from the perspective of collective action theory. How are political leaders able to overcome the incongruence between individual incentives and collective goals, a feature of collective action problems? The paper uses the concepts of transactional and transformational leadership, proposed by J.M. Burns in his seminal book on the topic and confronts them to empirical researches on collective action. Moreover, the paper argues that the concept of moral leadership, also by Burns, is well suited with the most recent research results on trust and legitimacy, and as such, it would deserve further attention. Because generally speaking political science still devotes much less attention to the problematique of leadership than, for instance, management studies.

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