POLITICAL LEADERS, THEIR TYPES AND PERSONAL QUALITIES: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT

The work is devoted to the problem of types of political leaders in modern society. The author made accent on modern psychological models of leaders’ typology. It has been concluded that leader is a member of a group who is much more responsible to take care about the achievement of group targets than other members. There are different typologies of political leadership. Among them it is necessary to name typologies of M. Weber, J. Burn, D. Goleman and R. Tucker. It is obvious that today social development needs the elaboration of integrative and united psychological model of types of political leadership which will help to resolve the most burning questions of the global political development.