1. Changing Conceptions of Leadership: An Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of Leadership: A Preliminary Skirmish -- The Group Context of Leadership -- Leadership and Social Evolution -- Leader-Follower Associations -- From Animals to Humans: Natural and Institutional Attention Control -- Some Conclusions -- 3. The Dilemma of Unwanted Leadership in Social Movements: The German Example Before 1914 -- The Beginning—An “Impossible” Discussion -- High Tide in Discussions of the Political Mass Strike -- The Leader-Mass Problem in 1905 -- High-points in the Discussion: Luxemberg versus Kantsky and the Organizational Crisis of 1913 -- 4. Charismatic Leadership: Max Weber’s Model and Its Applicability to the Rule of Hitler -- Weber’s Model -- The Latent Charismatic Situation -- The Manifest Charismatic Situation -- The Establishment of Charismatic Leadership -- The Properties of Charismatic Leadership -- 5. Charismatic Domination, Totalitarian Dictatorship, and Plebiscitary Democracy in the Twentieth Century -- Toward a Theory of Charismatic Domination -- Types of Extraordinary Situations -- Totalitarian Dictatorship -- Plebiscitary Democracy -- Plebiscitary Democracy and Political Parties -- Toward a Systematic Study of Charismatic Phenomena -- 6. Power and Leadership in Lewinian Field Theory: Recalling an Interrupted Task -- Kurt Lewin and the Change in Social Psychology -- Power and Leadership in the Field-Theoretical Perspective -- Individualism and the Galileian Principle: An Unresolved Conflict -- 7. The Contribution of Cognitive Resources and Behavior to Leadership Performance -- Antecedents -- Contributions of Leader Intelligence to Task Performance -- Cognitive Resource Theory -- Initial Empirical Support for the Cognitive Resource Theory -- Discussion -- 8. Leadership as a Function of GroupAction -- Without Action, There Is No Leadership -- Basic Features of Group Action -- Leadership in Group Action -- The Future of Leadership -- 9. Contests, Conquests, Coronations: On Media Events and Their Heroes -- Heroes and the Daily News -- Media Events -- A Typology of Media Events -- Events and Their Heroes -- The Role of Television -- Media Events and Conflict Management -- 10. The Creation of Political Leaders in the Context of American Politics in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Players -- The Voters and Their Perceptions -- Shaping and Introducing the Candidate -- Reassessment and Fine Tuning -- Reflections on the Process: The Creation of a Political Leader or the Creation of a Political Manager? -- 11. Leadership Ms.-Qualified: I. The Gender Bias in Everyday and Scientific Thinking -- Some Facts and Figures -- Leadership Research and Theory -- Women as a Topic of Leadership Research -- The Gender Bias in Psychological Research -- Conclusion -- 12. Leadership Ms.-Qualified: II. Reflections on and Initial Case Study Investigation of Contemporary Women Leaders -- Toward an Expanding Conceptualization of Leadership -- Interviewing Women Leaders: A Pilot Study -- Pathways to Leadership: The Activation of Women Leaders -- Consequences of the Particular Pathways: Network Support, Interchangeability, Entitlement, and the Protégé System -- The Anomalies of Women’s Leadership Praxis: Coping with Issues of Authority -- Constructing the Function, Praxis, and Social Ecology of Leadership -- Creating an Alternative Ecology -- The Public and the Private: The Double Standard for Women Leaders, a Further Ms.-Qualification -- Future Perspectives -- 13. Scientific Leadership -- The Need for Leadership -- The Scientific Leadership -- The Functions of Scientific Leadership -- 14. Epilogue -- Author Index.

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