NATIONAL POLITICAL LEADER AS A SUBJECT OF SOCIETY INTEGRATION

Aleksey Radugin¹, Boris Chernyshov^2
1Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Voronezh State Technical University,84, 20-letiya Oktyabya St., Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: aradugin@yandex.ru
²Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,  1, Okhotny Ryad St., Moscow, Russia,
E-mail: borischernishov@gmail.com

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of the nature of political leadership. The authors endeavored to consider the main methodological approaches to the concept of “political leader”, to reveal the specifics of understanding this phenomenon in the framework of various conceptual settings, to prove that the determining quality of a national political leader is subjectivity, to identify the main resources of subjectivity, which enable him/her to act towards consolidation of society.

Keywords: political leader, leadership qualities, subjectivity, social context, capital of a political leader, social functions of a political leader.