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This chapter deals with career paths of political leaders by showing how they do not stop with politics, but continue through a complex system of relationships that politics opens up for them. Whether we are talking about advisory and/or consultancy posts, or company directorships, the number of democratic leaders who go into business following the end of their term in office is steadily increasing. These leaders make full use of the personal and professional skills that guaranteed their original rise to power, but they also rely on government networks. Very often, the new generation of “leaders in business” use their term in office as a springboard toward a post-presidential future that is more active and better paid than their previous post.

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Musella, F. (2018). Leaders in Business. In: Political Leaders Beyond Party Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59348-7_5

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