Life of Brian Revisited: Assessing Informational and Non-Informational Leadership Tools

  • Recent literature models leadership as a process of communication in which leaders’ rhetorical signals facilitate followers’ co-ordination. While some studies have explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and sub-national legislative addresses in Russia, this article empirically demonstrates that followers react to informational signals from leaders. It further theorizes that leaders use a combination of informational and non-informational tools to solve the co-ordination problem. The findings show that a mixture of informational and non- informational tools shapes followers’ strategic calculi. Ignoring non-informational tools — and particularly the interrelationship between informational and non-informational tools - can threaten the internal validity of causal inference in the analysis of leadership effects on co-ordination.

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Metadaten
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Alexander Baturo, Slava JankinORCiD
Parent Title (English):Political Science Research and Methods
Publication year:2013
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:139
Last Page:157
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2013.3
Release Date:2019/02/08
Volume:1
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt)
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