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Year 4 Politics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Graham Little.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will be able:
- to supplement the analysis of policy with the analysis of people involved in making and carrying out policy (the personal element in politics);
- to gain a better understanding of the complexity of human motivation and response in politics and society (avoiding the rationalist fallacy);
- to become aware of the major schools of thought on the psychology of leadership (agreed that emphasis is psychoanalytic but without prejudice to other psychological contributions);
- to explore whether psychological ideas about leadership 'travel' across culture, and how leadership differs in different cultures;
- to understand how relationships between leaders and followers are formed and how, in particular, followers influence leaders;
- to explore the boundary between different disciplines, the psychological approaches and political science.
Content:
The study of leadership as a psychosocial process, focusing on leadership in politics, business, education, religion, social movements. Topics include: the leader-follower relation; the relative importance of gifted individuals and the groups that promote and demote them; the relation between leaders and 'their times'; types of leaders' competing models of leadership; and how to study leadership.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 157)
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