Political leadership and contemporary liberal political theory / John Horton -- Political leadership, judgment and the sense of reality / Peter Lassman -- The Janus face of leadership : the demands of normality and exception / Gabriella Slomp -- Elites vs. the popular will : a false dichotomy / Joseph Femia -- Political leadership : classical vs. leader democracy / András Körösényi -- Getting from here to there : Marxism and the paradoxes of leadership / Jules Townshend -- Virtues and vices of liberal democratic leadership / Donald D. Searing & Marco R. Steenbergen -- Political leadership and sovereignty / Raia Prokhovnik -- The two 'faces' of political creativity : two paradigms of political leadership / Gábor G. Fodor.