*Legitimacy and Followership in National and International Political Leadership * ** Edited by Femke van Esch and Rudolf Metz /Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2024 /| /Deadline for Articles: 31 July 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 "Legitimacy and Followership in National and International Political Leadership," edited by Femke van Esch (Utrecht University) and Rudolf Metz (Centre for Social Sciences / Corvinus University of Budapest). This thematic issue aims to go beyond traditional leadership perspectives and put questions of legitimacy and the active role of followers on a central stage, focusing on the following subjects:                                         • Legitimacy and followership regarding populist or authoritarian leadership;                                         • Legitimacy and followership in different institutional contexts;                                         • Legitimacy of leadership by international organizations and in an international or transnational context;                                         • The role of legitimacy beliefs, emotions, and cognitive factors in political legitimacy and followership;                                         • The role of social identification and shared beliefs in the attribution of legitimacy to leaders;                                         • The effect of distance and crises on the attribution of legitimacy to leaders. 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#LegitimacyFollowership Abstracts welcome by 15 March 2024. Kindest regards, Carolina Carolina Correia Politics and Governance Cogitatio Press 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal New issues (open access): Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Comparative Fiscal Federalism and the Post-Covid EU https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/373 Vol 11, No 3 (2023): United in Uniqueness? Lessons From Canadian Politics for European Union Studies https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/360 ------------------------------------------------------------------------