Leo Varadkar jako premier Irlandii – pomiędzy przywództwem transakcyjnym i transformacyjnym
Leo Varadkar – between transactional and transformational leadership

Summary/Abstract: On June 2, 2017, Leo Varadkar was elected in Ireland for a leader of the Christian Democratic party Fine Gael. Two weeks later, his minority government gained a vote of confidence in the Irish parliament. Therefore, L. Varadkar became the youngest Taoiseach (head of government) in the history of Ireland. In this article, we try to answer the question: how a political leader managed to convince his supporters to his views and visions of the future. We hypothesize that followers still expect that political leaders will be able to find a balance between the transactional and transformational leadership. Our analysis proves that L. Varadkar maintains this balance and we try to present it by confronting the communication strategies adopted by him for the purposes of internal political rivalry and in his public speeches during the Brexit crisis. We mainly use the method of biographical reconstruction, complementing it with elements of system analysis and content analysis.

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