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Loyalists and Revolutionaries: Political Elites in Comparative Perspective

Department of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056, USA

Kay Phillips

Miami University, Oxford OH 45056, USA.

This paper identifies a series of similarities and differences involving two matched lists of loyalist and revolutionary leaders, building towards two complementary sets of results. The delineation of the similarities highlights a single leadership group that transcends the loyalist-revolutionary distinction and focuses on leadership characteristics in general. The elaboration of the differences yields a small cluster of key variables that effectively separates two leadership types and makes possible probabilistic statements about leaders who are likely to turn to loyalist or revolutionary politics. The paper draws on its main findings to outline an "interactional" theory of political leadership.

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