The Narrative Construction of Political Leadership. Review Article on the Hungarian Literature of Political Leadership from a Social Constructivist Point of View Cover Image

A politikai vezetés narratív konstrukciója. A magyarországi politikai vezetéskutatási munkák konstruktivista olvasata
The Narrative Construction of Political Leadership. Review Article on the Hungarian Literature of Political Leadership from a Social Constructivist Point of View

Author(s): Botond Gergely Árpási
Subject(s): Political behavior
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete
Keywords: Political leadership; social constructivism; storytelling

Summary/Abstract: This article seeks to review the Hungarian literature on political leadership from a social constructivist point of view. The text is based on the premise that there is an ‘elective affinity’ between the constructivist mode of inquiry focusing on intersubjectivity and the approach emphasising the formative role of political leadership. This concept not only allows the structuring of the Hungarian literature, but it may nonetheless prove useful in grasping the unique features of the significant directions of this fi eld on a theoretical level. Namely, the particularity of this discourse is its leader-centric focus on the one hand, while showing recurring constructivist premises on the other. All this, in a constructivist reading, means that political leaders play a formative role in the linguistic and discursive construction of our social and political reality, thus the meaningful social reality is greatly created via leadership narratives.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 87-111
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Hungarian