Avraham Avi-Hai. 'Jewish Leadership: Past and Future'. In:
Towards the Twenty-First Century; Judaism and the Jewish People in Israel and America. Essays in Honor of Rabbi Leon Kronish. Ed. by Ronald Kronish. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1988. pp 15-25.
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Aharon Barak. ‘The Role of the Supreme Court in a Democracy’, in “Israel Studies” Volume 3, Number 2 

David Ben Gurion. Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
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Avraham R. Besdin. 'Who is Fit to Lead the Jewish People?’ Chap. XII  in: “Reflections of the Rav”, Department for Torah Education and Culture, WZO, 1979 (Jewish Agency for Israel).

Menachem Begin. Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education. www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/
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Martin Buber:
Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education. www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/
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The Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism: Introduction www.uwec.edu/beachea/buber.html

A. Cohen. Chap. VI, ‘Social Life: The individual and the community’, in "Everyman’s Talmud”, Dent & Sons, 1932.

Stuart A. Cohen:
Chap. 9: ‘Leadership in the Jewish Polity: Early Rabbinic Views’ in Authority, Power and Leadership in the Jewish Polity, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/University Press of America, 1991.
'The Concept of the Three Ketarim. Their place in Jewish political thought and implications for the study of Jewish constitutional history' in: Kinship and Consent: The Jewish Political Tradition and its Contemporary Uses, D.J.Elazar, Ed. Transaction Books, Brunswick, N.J., 1997, pp. 47-76.

Daniel Elazar:
Introduction to: 'Authority, Power and Leadership in the Jewish Polity', Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/University Press of America, 1991.
www.jcpa.org/dje/articles3/apl-intro.htm
Articles on Jewish Political Thought
www.jcpa.org/dje/index-jpt.htm

Theodor Herzl. Centenary website. Jewish Agency for Israel, Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel:
The Prophets. Harper and Row/Harper Collins/Harper Perennial Classics. 1962
Biography. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel
Selection of Articles, Heschel Centenary. Shalom Center.
www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy_menu/1/127/7/52?from=10
Amy Scheinerman.
http://scheinerman.net/judaism/personalities/heschel.html

Louis Jacobs. Chapter: On Leadership, in  “What Does Judaism Say About…”. pp. 200-203

Benjamin M. Kahn: Chapter: Leadership and the Jewish Community, in Alfred Jospe (Ed). “Tradition and Contemporary Experience: Essays on Jewish Thought and Life”, Schocken Books, NY, 1977. 

Rabbi Yosef Karo (Caro) of Zefat:
Biography. Ascent.
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Biography. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Karo

Reuven R Kimelman. Abravanel and the Jewish Republican Ethos. In Commandment and Community: New Essays in Jewish Legal and Political Philosophy. Daniel H. Frank, Ed. pp.195-216. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1995.

Golda Meir. Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/
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Moses Montefiore. Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/
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Menachem Persoff. Biblical journeys: Dreams, Dilemmas & Decisions of Biblical Leaders.; Project director: Hayim Azses. Division for Publications, Department for Jewish Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel. Jerusalem1999. 147 p

Yitzhak Rabin. Memorial website. The Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
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Sol Roth. “Halakhah and Politics: The Jewish Idea of a State”, Ktav, NY, 1988

Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Biography. Jewish Agency for Israel, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education.
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Saadiah Gaon, Book of Beliefs and Opinions
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Biography.
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Wikipedia.
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Biography. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Soloveitchik
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Adin Steinsaltz:
“Biblical Images”, Men and Women of the Book. Harper Collins, 1986
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www.steinsaltz.org/dynamic/content.asp?id=3
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The Vilna Gaon
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The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and his Image. Immanuel Etkes. University of California Press. 2002. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4n39q33f/

Journals:

Dan Izenberg. ‘Raunchier than Reality TV?’. In :The Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2007
 
Dr. Reuven Kimelman: 'Judaism and Pluralism', In: Modern Judaism, 7,2. 1987 (pp.131-150)

Reuven Kimelman: ‘A Lesson in Leadership - Abraham, Moses and Elijah’; &
Bradley Shavit Artson: ‘Plunging in Before the Sea Splits’
In:  Jewish Education News, Spring 1993. (Special focus on Leadership)

Alvin Schiff. ‘Leadership in Jewish Sources: A Comparative View’.
In: Journal of Jewish Communal Service 63,3. 1987 (pp. 197-203)