Objectif This project intends to explore charismatic political leadership, and the conditions that promote its successful realisation in the newly democratised states of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. It is hypothesised that charismatic leadership is characteristic of the contemporary political environment of the above countries, and therefore, determines their prospect of achieving a sustainable democratic future.These countries are still in the process of stabilisation and are experiencing considerable economic and political difficulties. Therefore, it is important to explore the contribution of charismatic leadership to the process of democratisation and its effect on the dynamics of the transitional path of these countries.The principal research objectives are twofold:(1) to clarify empirically what charismatic political leadership connotes, and;(2) to define the mechanics of its success in the perspective of further national democratisation in the above named countries.The first part of our investigation will focus on the process of building authority by the most prominent political figures at election time, and explore their 'charismatic' realisation in practice through their narratives and various messages to their electorates. The second part of research will include an analysis of leaders' success/failure with their followers and will be studied at a grass-root level. This is to determine what motivates voters to support charismatic leaders, and how their vote endorsement develops and is sustained at and after election timeThe eventual results should shed important light on both methodological and practical question of sustainability of charismatic leadership in post-communist democracies. It is expected that strong authoritarian legacies and current economic-cum-political upheaval may support the existed political discourse and, thereby, hinder the process of democracy building in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The research is designed to contribute to an understanding of the logic and mechanics of political leadership in its extreme form, and thereby, to envisage and overcome possible difficulties in relationship to the process of democratisation, in practice. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Thème(s) 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences OPEN - OPEN Call Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement Data not available Coordinateur University of Bath Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Claverton Down BA2 7AY Bath Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (4) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire Belorussian State University Biélorussie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse K. Marxa, 31 220030 Minsk Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Centre of Public and Marketing Research SOCIS Ltd. Ukraine Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 6, Mykhailivs'ka Street 252001 Kiev Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Institute of Political Sciences France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 27 rue Saint-Guillaime 75337 Paris Cedex 07 Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Russie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Mokhovaya, 11 103009 Moscow Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée