Psychology of political leadership

The article considers different approaches to the phenomenon of leadership. A characterlogical approach highlights leader’s personal qualities; behavioral approach studies leader’s actions and their connection with leadership effectiveness. Leader’s power and influence is an approach in the leadership research which studies types of power, connection of leadership power and success. A situational approach underlines importance of such factors as authority and freedom of leader’s actions as well as character of external environment. Theory of charismatic leadership pays main attention to leader’s qualities and theory of implicit leadership where leadership is perceived as subjective but not objective construct.