Role of Leadership in Political Mobilization

Readings, Media & Resources

Role of Leadership in Political Mobilization Readings, Media & Resources

McDermott, Rose. 2018. “Leadership and the strategic emotional manipulation of political identity: An evolutionary perspective’. The Leadership Quarterly, online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.11.005

1.Discussion Board (26%): You will be required to post one answer, and one comment in the discussion board each week. a.I will post at least one discussion question related to the topic and relevant readings at the beginning of each week. The discussion questions will usually be broad to allow the responses from a wide spectrum. You are required to post your answer to the professor’s discussion question(s). You are required to post one answer with minimum 260 words long.

2-You are required to write a comment to at least one of your classmates’ p•Your comment should be thoughtful and should go beyond simple “I agree” posts. Your comment will be at least 110 words long. •To secure credit, your responses and comments should be thoughtful; that is, they must refer to the weekly readings and information from other pertaining resources, and they expand the idea presented and contribute to the discussion.

3-.Weekly Question( 13 %): You are required to submit at least one question from the weekly readings assigned•The question whether it is factual or fictitious, should provoke thought and criticism relevant to the weekly class readings.•A question such as “Has there been more research conducted on [the weekly topic]” is not an acceptable one.•The purpose of the “weekly question” the assignment is to promote your critical thinking, but not to receive an answer. Please do not expect a reply to your every question. •Your “weekly questions” must be substantially different from the question I posted on the Discussion Board.2-

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1-Discussion

Discussion 14

To what extent are McDermot’s (2018) arguments about the relationship between leadership manipulation and collective mobilization, useful to explain terrorism and political violence. Please explain your answer.

2-Weekly Question

Post a question relevant to the readings. The question of whether it is factual or fictitious should provoke thought and criticism relevant to the weekly class readings..•Your “weekly questions” must be substantially different from the question I posted on the Discussion Board.

3-write a comment

You are required to write a comment to at least one of your classmates’ p•Your comment should be thoughtful and should go beyond simple “I agree” posts. Your comment will be at least 110 words long. •To secure credit, your responses and comments should be thoughtful; that is, they must refer to the weekly readings.

Student#1 is for part 3- write a comment. write a response for this student discussion. Your comment will be at least 110 words long

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3-write a comment

You are required to write a comment to at least one of your classmates’ p•Your comment should be thoughtful and should go beyond simple “I agree” posts. Your comment will be at least 110 words long. •To secure credit, your responses and comments should be thoughtful; that is, they must refer to the weekly readings.

Student#1 is for write a comment. write a response for this student discussion. Your comment will be at least 110 words long

From this week’s reading, I find that McDermot’s arguments between leadership manipulation and collective mobilization are quite interesting. McDermot finds that leaders and followers can benefit from a mutual understanding from their relationship. For example, he states “at least in the modern world, leaders can be successful at cultivating followers without necessarily being particularly good at implementing policies that benefit those constituencies.” (McDermont 1) For a successful group to be able to mobilize its followers towards a common goal, they must involve some other variables besides the imposition of coercive force, the mere provision of material benefits, and most importantly the ability to remain in power. For example, McDermot states that “environmental factors matter because modern large-scale politics make it very difficult for followers to know what leaders are doing, much less hold them accountable for their behavior, since leader have more opportunity to manipulate and deceive followers for their benefit than would have been the case in small-scale political environments.” (McDermont 1) One of the key findings within the arguments is that leader strives to manipulate the emotion. After all, they can be used effectively to shape operations and construction in social and political identity. Overall, the emotional operation “can help us to regulate sensation-seeking or approaching and avoidance response to achieve and maintain an optimal state of arousal” (McDermont 4)