Leadership and Change in Asia-Pacific: Where Does Political Will Come From?
Date
2020
Authors
Hudson, David
Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas
Mcloughlin, Claire
Roche, Chris
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Cogitatio Press
Abstract
We introduce this thematic issue by exploring the role of leadership in social and political change. In current times, the
importance of leadership and choice has proved as important as ever. Leadership is often the critical variable separating
success or failure, legitimacy and sustainability or collapse. This thematic issue explores a range of in-depth case studies
across the Asia-Pacific region that help illustrate the critical elements of leadership. Collectively they demonstrate that
leadership is best understood as a collective process involving motivated agents overcoming barriers to cooperation to
form coalitions that have enough power, legitimacy and influence to transform institutions. Five themes emerge from the
thematic issue as a whole: leadership is political; the centrality of gender relations; the need for a more critical localism;
scalar politics; and the importance of understanding informal processes of leadership and social change.
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Keywords
Asia-Pacific region, China, Covid-19, developmental leadership, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, political will, Solomon Islands
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Source
Politics and Governance
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Journal article
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Access Statement
Open Access
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license
DOI
10.17645/pag.v8i4.3831