In this article I advance the argument that political scientists and students of leadership should engage with each other more extensively. In the first part of the article I look at some of the reasons why political scientists may have treated the phenomenon of leadership with suspicion in the past despite the resurgence of interest in issues associated with leadership in the last 20 years. In the second part of the article I sketch some key dimensions of political leadership and examine a selection of the key political science writings (including some recent ones) on the subject. In the third part of the article I suggest some areas where leadership studies and political science have a mutual research agenda and where gaps in our knowledge might be remedied by collaborative work between the disciplines.

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