*Ethics, Democracy, and Political Leadership * ** Edited by ** Cristine de Clercy /Deadline for Abstracts: 15 June 2024 /| /Deadline for Articles: 15 October 2024/ Politics and Governance, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 2.2) and Scopus (CiteScore: 4.2), welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Ethics, Democracy, and Political Leadership," edited by Cristine de Clercy (Trent University). This thematic issue will focus on how modern democracies are imbued with many conceptualizations about the ethical rules and norms that govern individual leaders and groups of leaders. Ethical leadership is thought to be important for—and correlated with—public trust. Trust is a foundational element of modern governance. However, ethical norms are often violated in practice or conflict with other “rules” of governance. Scholars disagree as to how and why public trust may be solidified (or eroded), and also debate the causative role of leadership in creating such trust. Contributions to this issue may be guided by some broad questions, such as: * What are the necessary and essential ethical parameters that ought to inform how democratic leadership is exercised? * Does populism enhance or erode ethics and public trust in democracies? * Does a leader’s rhetoric about ethical government help to increase trust in a democratic government? * How is democratization informed by the practice of ethical leadership? Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/pages/view/nextissues#EthicsTrust Abstracts welcome by 15 June 2024. Kindest regards, Carolina Carolina Correia Politics and Governance Cogitatio Press 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal New issues (open access): Vol 12 (2024): From Kabul to Kyiv: The Crisis of Liberal Interventionism and the Return of War https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i375 Vol 12 (2024): Active Labour Market Policies and Youth Employment in European Peripheries https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i378 ------------------------------------------------------------------------