This article indicated a model for a scientific description of styles of
political leadership in Serbia from 1990 to the present, more precisely,
pointed the basic elements of concept developed by the author in the study
?The style of political leaders in Serbia in the period 1990-2006? (2010).
For the evaluation the author uses analytical tools that include the
aforementioned concept, simultaneously indicating correlative theoretical
approaches the aforementioned study did not examine, and may be of importance
for the research of political elites in Serbia. This contributes the
epistemological part of the method, which is registered in the definition of
the style of political leadership as a term and the category apparatus that
follows - understood from the aspect of the political style: the style in
building political power, the style of political communication, the style of
building one?s legitimacy, the ideological style, the styles of political
language, symbolism and rituals, non-verbal communication and style in
expressing patriotism. Starting from the fact that political styles are
related to characteristics of political cultures and that it is necessary to
make a concept of ideal typical models of styles focused on political
subjects, this article marked the styles of political leadership typology
related to the specific acting of political leaders in Serbia: authoritarian,
republican, realistic, populist, conformist, revolutionary and style of a
politician-rebel.