El liderazgo político en las democracias representativaspropuesta de análisis desde el constructivismo estructuralista
- Francisco Collado-Campaña 1
- José Francisco Jiménez-Díaz 1
- Francisco Entrena-Durán 2
- 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Departamento de Derecho Público
- 2 Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Sociología
ISSN: 0185-1918, 2448-492X
Year of publication: 2016
Volume: 61
Issue: 228
Pages: 57-90
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales
Abstract
In this article we set forth an approach concerning the processes of political leadership within the polyarchies or representative democracies. Scholars such as Bryman, Burns, Kouzes, Linz, or Posner define the political leadership as a relationship of exchange between a leader and his followers by way of the vision that the former conveys as a motivational factor. Based on this notion and in connection with Pierre Bourdieu’s structural-constructivist approach we argue the pertinence of studying political leadership by integrating its subjective and objective dimensions. Hence, political leadership is considered, on the one hand, as a socio-culturally constructed phenomenon, stressing especially the notions of frame, habitus, field, and symbolic capital; while proposing on the other hand a diachronic study of political leadership aimed at understanding the real process of symbolic capital accumulation by political leaders.