| No | Source | Details | Category |
| 1 | Ammeter, A. P., Douglas, C., Gardner, W. L., Hochwarter, W. A. & Ferris, G. R. (2002). Toward a political theory of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 13 (6), pp. 751-796 | Political leadership is defined as the constructive management of shared meaning. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 2 | Aragonès, E., Postlewaite, A., & Palfrey, T. (2007). Political reputations and campaign promises. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5 (4), 846-884. | The reputation of a political leader depends on the degree to which promises are credible. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 3 | Beerbohm, E. (2015). Is Democratic Leadership Possible? American Political Science Review, 109 (4), pp. 639-652. | Proposes shared commitment as the basis of democratic leadership | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 4 | Bennister M., ‘t Hart, P. & Worthy, B. (2015). Assessing the authority of political office-holders: the leadership capital index. West European Politics, 38 (3), pp. 417-440. | Uses LCI to review aggregate authority of political leader | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 5 | Butcher, D. & Clarke, M. (2006). Political leadership in democracies: some lessons for business? Management Decision, 44 (8), pp. 985-1001. | Suggests a political institutional approach to leading. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 6 | Bryder, T. (2001). Motivational Approaches to the Study of Political Leadership. Political Science, 104 (2). | Leaders can use motivation to empower the underprivileged. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 7 | Curry-Stevens, A. (2007). Pedagogy for the privileged: Building civic virtues in political leaders. Available at: http://www.tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/conference2003/Proceedings/ Curry-Stevens.pdf | Use of pedagogy to transform the privileged towards building civic virtues. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 8 | de Clercy, C. & Ferguson, P. (2016). Leadership in precarious contexts: Studying political leaders after the global financial crisis. Politics and Governance, 4 (2), pp. 104-114. | Proposes a decentralist perspective to challenging events. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 9 | Garfield, Z.H., von Rueden, C. & Hagen, E. H. (2019). The evolutionary anthropology of political leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 30 (1), pp. 59-80. | Relationship between evolution, ecology, and culture as they related to political leadership. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 10 | Hendriks, C. M. (2009). Deliberative governance in the context of power. Policy and Society, 28 (3), pp. 173-184. | Deliberative democracy relate to both coercive and generative forms of power. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 11 | Horton, J. (2007). Political leadership and contemporary liberal theory. In: Political leadership: a missing link element in democratic theory’, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 May 2007. | Underscores the often overlooked importance of human agency in political leadership. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 12 | Ishii, K. (2011). Analysis of political leadership using the questionnaire method. Mejiro Journal of Humanities, 7, pp. 75-85. | Proposes integration of behaviour and trait theory in the research of political leadership. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 13 | Ishii, K. (2010). Theory of Political Leadership. Mejiro Journal of Humanities, 6, pp. 61-74. | Proposes three kinds of political leadership: creative, administrative, and symbolic. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 14 | Lees-Marshment, J. (2016). Deliberative political leaders: The role of policy input in political leadership. Politics and Governance, 4 (2), pp. 25-35. | Demonstrates that government ministers take a deliberative approach to decision making. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 15 | Körösényi, A., Illés, G. & Metz R (2016). Contingency and political action: The role of leadership in endogenously created crises. Politics and Governance, 4 (2). | Introduces a third approach-voluntarist-for political leaders in crisis management situations. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 16 | Manor, J. & Duckett J. (2017). The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 55 (3), pp. 303-327. | Underscores the importance of political agency, prioritisation and adoption of certain issues. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 17 | Morrell, K. & Hartley, J. (2006). A model of political leadership. Human Relations, 59 (4), pp. 483-504. | Political leadership is denoted by interdependent networks of social relations. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 18 | Munro, I. & Thanem, T. (2018). The ethics of affective leadership: Organizing good encounters without leaders. Business Ethics Quarterly, 28 (1), pp. 51-69. | Argues against underplay of ethical capabilities of followers in ethical leadership literature. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 19 | Myerson, R. (2011). Toward a theory of leadership and state building. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (Supplement 4), pp. 21297-21301. | Loyal supporters expect political leaders to be reputable. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 20 | Paramova, P. & Blumberg, H. (2017). Cross-cultural variation in political leadership styles. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13 (4), p.749. | Transformational leadership behaviours are universal across cultures. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 21 | Prokhovnik, R. (2009). Political leadership and sovereignty. In Political leadership: a missing link element in democratic theory, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 May 2007. | Defines political sovereignty as how negotiation takes place in a political society. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 22 | Teles, F. (2012). Political leaders: The paradox of freedom and democracy. Revista Enfoques, 10 (16), pp. 113-131. | Voters look-up to dominance of assertive leaders during voting decision-making. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 23 | Torfing, J. & Ansell, C. (2017). Strengthening political leadership and policy innovation through the expansion of collaborative forms of governance. Public Management Review, 19 (1), pp. 37-54. | Collaborative governance can enhance political leadership and policy innovation. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 24 | Torfing, J. & Sørensen, E. (2019). Interactive political leadership in theory and practice: How elected politicians may benefit from co-creating public value outcomes. Administrative Sciences, 9 (3), 1-18. | Politicians strengthen their political leadership role through leading co-creation of public value outcomes. | Deliberative and consultative perspective |
| 25 | van Zuydam, S. (2014). Credibility as a source of political capital: exploring political leaders’ performance from a credibility perspective. In Political capital and the dynamics of leadership: exploring the leadership capital, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, 2014. | Credibility as political capital is essential to political leadership. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 26 | van Zuydam, S. & Hendriks, F. (2018). Credibility enacted: Understanding the meaning of credible political leadership in the Dutch parliamentary election campaign of 2010. Journal of Political Marketing, 17 (3), pp. 258-281. | Extends credibility approach with a dramaturgical approach in building political leader credibility. | Behavioural and traits perspective |
| 27 | Yan, X. (2016). Political leadership and power redistribution. The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 9 (1), pp. 1-26. | Moral realism suggests that a state’s strength determines strategic interests and political leadership determine strategies to achieve those interests. | Behavioural and traits perspective |