Which Politicians Are A Charismatic Leader, According To Science?

When you say charismatic leader, different people can come to mind in everyone’s mind. to anyone’s mind religious leaders who comes to mind heads of state may come. In fact, there are some common characteristics of leaders that include them in the charismatic class. The most well-known is that they can connect millions to themselves.

Before we move on to these, let’s have a history travel let’s do.

One of the first to use the concept of charismatic leadership was Max Weber.

Sociologist Max Weber; leaders traditional, charismatic And legal/rational was divided into three. Weber, who defines the unique characteristics of each, mentions that charismatic leaders generally emerge in times of turmoil and crisis in society and that the public attaches to them with great admiration. It defines other features as follows:

People call him society, not because of his social status or specialized knowledge. influenced by his words because it is connected. The public thinks that the leader is as loyal to the people as he is to the leader. Weber also states that these leaders combined their own mission with the beliefs of the people.

Charismatic leaders have a few common traits.

He spoke to the public about the future with his beautiful oratory. good hopes they give. They have high self-confidence, with persuasion skills they can impress others and captivate the masses with their courage.

The traits they really have are not important, their people have some outstanding features they make you believe they have it. They recognize the needs of the people and act sensitively to them. Communicate with the public in a plain and clear language and be one of them. “from the ivory towers” They feel like they are not coming.

How did Hitler, known for his charisma, gain his charisma?

Weber; He attributes this to the misery of the people in Germany, which had withdrawn from the First World War, due to the heavy taxes and restrictions paid by the people. So the people will save them from this misery a savior/hero was looking for. Hitler promised them that too.

with its own mission to create the pure German race combined with the economy and power, which was the will of the people. Of course, there is also the role of propaganda tools that he uses effectively.

Now let’s look at the charisma of the three party leaders with the most votes in Turkey.

State Garden: Researchers have found that Bahçeli, who has been the party chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party since 1997, for some reasons such as bringing the party to the forefront, lack of eloquence, and rarely smiling. lack of charismatic leadership is thinking.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: According to the researchers, the people struggling with economic difficulties in the 2002 elections; While seeking a young, determined leader, he finds Erdoğan in front of him. In those elections, he appeals to the aspirations and anger of the people and makes himself popular as the “Man of the people”. With his strong rhetoric, manners and actions, he gave the people what he wanted and integrated with them, the researchers themselves see the charismatic leader has caused.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu: Researchers, Kılıçdaroğlu, who is the chairman of the Republican People’s Party, is in the background because he brings the party identity and the phenomenon of Atatürk to the fore and did not achieve charismatic leadership is thinking.

There are many examples of charismatic leaders from the recent past.

Researchers, read the people and thinks that leaders who are integrated with the needs of the people such as:

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Charles De Gaulle, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Nelson Mandela, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Fidel Castro, Volodymyr Zelensky, Jamal Abdul Nasser, Yasser Arafat, Nursultan Nazarbayev…