Description

What is political leadership and does it operate differently in different political contexts? In addition to context, personal political skill plays a large role in the area of leadership, often yielding significant results. Whether a leader is active or passive, creating dynamic relations of talent and institutional powers or choosing to leave situations as they are, skill is frequently the key factor in policy achievement.

In this book, editors Hargrove and Owens gather seven very different studies of skill in context. From the role of the European Commission president to the well established function of the president of the United States, each essay analyzes and interprets the effects of institutional powers and the environments in which leaders operate on their effectiveness and degree of personal talent each brings to the table.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Leadership in Context
Chapter 2 Presidential Leadership: Skill in Context
Chapter 3 Late Twentieth Century Congressional Leaders as Shapers of and Hostages to Political Context: Gingrich, Hastert, and Lott
Chapter 4 Political Skills and Context in Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britian
Chapter 5 The Prime Minister in Canada and the Rise of Personalized Leadership
Chapter 6 Comparing Jacques Delors and Jacques Santer as Presidents of the European Commission: Skill in Supranational Context
Chapter 7 The Leadership Styles of the German Chancellors from Schmidt to Schröder
Chapter 8 The Essence of Presidential Leadership in France: Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterand, and Chirac as Coalition Builders

Product details

Published Oct 22 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 254
ISBN 9780742528536
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 229 x 155 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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