Public leadership as public-making

Abstract

This article focuses on public leadership as public-making, drawing on the work of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series on Emergent Publics. The article explores three sets of processes on which publicmaking depends: those of summoning, mediation and mobilization. Together, it is argued, these offer a way of promoting a politics of public action.

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Janet Newman

Janet Newman is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Social Science, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.