The world is political dependable for political man.Here are many political man who are popular in the world.What people most want from their political leaders is height.
A study by Texas Tech University indicates that the electorate has a universal preference for tall leaders with a "physically formidable" stature because of "caveman politics". French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi both stand at 5ft 5ins tall and are among several world leaders of below-average height.
Whatever that, the report says favouring tall people is a prehistoric trend, now applied to political leadership races. Early humans preferred their larger peers as leaders because they were thought to have better survival skills, it asserts."Some traits and instincts that may have been acquired through evolution continue to manifest themselves in modern life," said Gregg R Murray, political science professor and co-author of the report. "We believe similar traits exist in politics."
Inspired by the Presidential Height Index, which shows that the taller candidates won 58 per cent of US presidential elections between 1789 and 2008, Dr Murray and his colleagues asked students to draw a "typical citizen" and an "ideal national leader". Of the 467 people surveyed, 64 per cent drew a taller leader and shorter citizen.
There was research done on (male) leaders of big business a couple of decades ago, and almost without exception they were either six foot or taller or five eight and shorter. The reason given for the short leaders was that they had had to learn how to compete: that is patronising, and ignores the fact that shorter males are more agile - better at getting coconuts and bananas.
How the arrival of more female leaders will affect this is open to conjecture: and in caveman times there would also have been dominant females, so without consideration of the female half of the population I would tend to view this research as a bit of Californian psychobollocks.
