This article on public leadership contributes to the literature by focusing on the 'public'aspect
of leadership and developing quantitative scales for measuring four public leadership roles …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of some pressing but under-
researched aspects of public leadership. Ten propositions about public leadership are set …

Public administrators need not only practical and intellectual permission to exercise
leadership, but also a practical and intellectual understanding of what leadership actually is …

This exploratory study surveys the public service leadership literature from a selection of
leading public administration journals over a 25‐year period (1987–2012). Patterns in …

The tough-talking, take-charge, individualistic view of public leadership is alive and well
throughout the world, despite the enthusiasm of leadership scholars for more shared …

Though management is theorized as a temporal process, and public organizations are
understood as generally inertial, most public management studies rely upon cross-sectional …

Although there is no shortage of general studies and theories of leadership, the same
cannot be said for public leadership. This concern surfaced as a critical issue among …

While scholarship on public leadership has recently gained momentum in public
administration, it is unclear how researchers should account for the “public” in public …

In this article, we aim to portray the state of the art in public sector leadership in order to
recommend directions for research and training practice. To this end, we review the …

Yes, this is another book about leadership. I apologize. And to tell you the truth it has been
extremely hard to convince myself that the world really needed one, and that I had …