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Styr partiledaren? : En Interaktionistisk Studie i Mona Sahlins Partiordförandeskap / Does the Party Leader rule? : An interactionistic study of Mona Sahlin's Party Leadership

The aim of this paper is to study and outline the factors governing political leadership at the party leader level, and to conclude to what extent a party leader rules and to what extent the party leadership is contextually determined. The theories used are based on Elgie's interactionistic study of political leadership and Stewart's organisational model of leadership as well as political culture. Thus, the questions raised are if the leader leads or if the leader follows; if the leadership environment is formed by the leader or if it is, merely, implemented on the leader; and what a model of the political leadership consist of? To answer these questions a text analysis comparing Sahlin’s speeches to the party’s political programme is used as well as in-depth interviews with members of the Board of Party. The conclusion shows that the leadership is contextually framed, but the leader is free to implement his or her ambitions within that frame as long as it is coherent to the party line.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-1719
Date January 2008
CreatorsKarlsson, Dennie
PublisherSödertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, Huddinge : Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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