Group members can want to gain authority and influence {leadership, politics}, inside or outside government.
purposes
Leaders want power to achieve goals, to impose values on others, or to exercise for its own sake.
types
Leaders can emphasize tasks or social-emotional bonds.
factors
Leadership depends on activity, expertise, and acceptance. People can be already powerful. People can seek power. Politically involved people are active participants, have desire for knowledge, have interest, and have concern. Apolitical people are the majority.
factors: personality
Leaders are confident, have political skills, value power, want power for self or group, have motives, and want to use power for goals. However, strong power drives can alienate voters and supporters. Powerful people have more resources and skills, know how to use them, and value results.
political resources
Leaders can dispense rewards and penalties, such as money, police, privileges, weapons, and status. Political resources help retain power, but leaders must conserve political resources. Autocracies typically have more political resources than democracies.
negatives
Leaders must be dishonest, do opposite of promised, kill innocents, and break other moral principles, either for greater public good or for staying in power. This behavior can destroy authority, break trust, hurt more people, corrupt, and set poor example.
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