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Leadership of Political Policy Entrepreneurs: a Comparison of Transactional and Transformational Styles

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Policy changes owe its allegiance to both transactional and transformational styles of leadership of policy entrepreneurs; putting a question, which style brings better result. To do so, overall policy changes in India during NDA rule of 2014–2019 was taken into study scope, focusing only on political policy entrepreneurs. Multiple stream framework was used in this study. The qualitative data helped in designing the questionnaire, which consequently got filled by 158 respondents. The results established the positive and significant relationship of both the styles with policy changes. However, the transformational leadership behavior is more preferable to transactional in influencing policy changes.

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Mishra, S.S. Leadership of Political Policy Entrepreneurs: a Comparison of Transactional and Transformational Styles. Public Organiz Rev 21, 527–541 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-021-00508-6

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