Leadership And Politics

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226729008

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Transformative Political Leadership by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders are rare in the developing world, where often institutions are weak and greed and corruption strong—and where responsible leadership therefore has the potential to effect the greatest change. In Transformative Political Leadership, Robert I. Rotberg focuses on the role of leadership in politics and argues that accomplished leaders demonstrate a particular set of skills. Through illustrative case studies of leaders who have performed ably in the developing world—among them Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Seretse Khama in Botswana, Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, and Kemal Ataturk in Turkey—Rotberg examines how these leaders transformed their respective countries. The importance of capable leadership is woefully understudied in political science, and this book will be an important tool in exploring how leaders lead and how nations and institutions are built.

Author : Barbara Kellerman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822974345

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Political Leadership by Barbara Kellerman Pdf

This collection of essays draws on writings from mythologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians, and political activists, to present perspectives on the techniques, philosophies, and theories of political leadership throughout history. The forty-three selections offer a broad range of thought and provide a uniquely comprehensive reference.

Author : François Vergniolle De Chantal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137439246

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Leadership and Uncertainty Management in Politics by François Vergniolle De Chantal Pdf

Through a range of international case studies from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy, this text assesses the conditions necessary for effective leadership and emphasizes the part played by uncertainty and division amongst followers.

Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465080977

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The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown Pdf

From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders -- meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process -- are the most successful and admirable. In reality, only a minority of political leaders will truly make a lasting difference. Though we tend to dismiss more collegial styles of leadership as weak, it is often the most cooperative leaders who have the greatest impact. Drawing on extensive research and decades of political analysis and experience, Brown illuminates the achievements, failures and foibles of a broad array of twentieth century politicians. Whether speaking of redefining leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Margaret Thatcher, who expanded the limits of what was politically possible during their time in power, or the even rarer transformational leaders who played a decisive role in bringing about systemic change -- Charles de Gaulle, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela, among them -- Brown challenges our commonly held beliefs about political efficacy and strength. Overturning many of our assumptions about the twentieth century's most important figures, Brown's conclusions are both original and enlightening. The Myth of the Strong Leader compels us to reassess the leaders who have shaped our world - and to reconsider how we should choose and evaluate those who will lead us into the future.

Author : Jeffery A. Jenkins,Craig Volden
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700625147

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Leadership in American Politics by Jeffery A. Jenkins,Craig Volden Pdf

In the polarized governing environment of American politics today, the problem of leadership becomes ever more pressing and ever more vexed. What defines leadership, what determines its importance and effectiveness, and how does it differ from one sphere of influence to another: these are the questions Leadership in American Politics addresses in an effort to clarify the causes and consequences of the actions that public leaders take. The authors—prominent scholars from the major subfields of American politics—discuss the form and content of leadership in their areas of expertise across the spectrum of American government: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; political parties; interest groups; bureaucracies; the states; and foreign policymaking. Combining historical, theoretical, and empirical approaches, their essays evaluate the constraints, opportunities, and influence of leadership in each area, as well as the challenges of bridging different realms. At a time when understanding the nature and limits of leadership is more important than ever, this volume lays the groundwork for the systematic study of leadership within and across American political institutions.

Author : Glenn D. Paige
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037049553

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The Scientific Study of Political Leadership by Glenn D. Paige Pdf

Author : Bryan D. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015014086832

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Leadership and Politics by Bryan D. Jones Pdf

In twelve essays, influential scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership from the kaleidoscopic perspectives of the leaders, institutions, goals, procedures, problems, and traditions involved. The approaches, as varied as the subject itself, coalesce around the central question of how leaders interact with, transform, or are controlled by the organizations they lead.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826210236

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Politics as Leadership by Robert C. Tucker Pdf

Robert C. Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other. Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership, Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this perspective than from the more familiar stance of the exercise of power. He maintains leaders must define collective problems, prescribe actions or policies, and finally seek support for their diagnoses and policy prescriptions. Tucker contends that political science must take account not only of leadership by those in state authority, but also of sociopolitical movements for change as vehicles of attempted leadership of political communities. Dividing such movements into those for reform and those for revolution, he illustrates this distinction with examples, including Martin Luther King Jr. as a reform leader and Lenin as a revolutionary one. Finally, Tucker raises a central question of his study: how can leadership save humankind from itself in the troubled world of today? In an insightful and moving discussion of what he calls the "crisis syndrome," Tucker analyzes problems such as population growth, resource depletion, and environmental degradation with respect to leadership. He argues that the current political process has focused on the immediate present while ignoring crises with far-reaching implications that require tough solutions. In the epilogue to this revised edition, Tucker draws on his expertise as a Russian specialist, extending the book's discussion of leadership by viewing Mikhail Gorbachev as a reform leader in Soviet Russia and Boris Yeltsin as a post-Soviet Russian leader. Tucker also readdresses the "crisis syndrome" by examining leaders' responses in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tucker's incisive reasoning, original insights, and commentary on the theory and practice of politics should make this revised edition of Politics as Leadership equally valuable and fascinating for experts in the field of political science and for concerned citizens.

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191509353

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Political Leadership by Michael Foley Pdf

Despite its recognized significance in social life, leadership is a notoriously elusive subject that generates a host of different points of explanatory focus. This is particularly so in the field of political leadership, which has been afflicted by an enduring split between the biographical idiosyncrasies of individual leaders and the specialist contributions from an array of social science disciplines. This new study is designed to establish an improved balance between this often myopic and confusing bifurcation of approaches. It engages with an expansive range of empirical, theoretical, and interpretive research into the issue of leadership but does so in a way that ensures that the political character of the subject is kept securely in the foreground. The project is therefore designed to maintain a clear emphasis upon leaders embedded in their political contexts and viscerally connected to high level issues of political location and status, political power and legitimacy, and political functions and contingencies. The book has a cumulative design that moves from an in-depth analysis of the basic components of political leadership to an examination of a series of key dimensions relating to leadership activity and development—namely the themes of representation, communication, marketing, business practice, and the issue of women leaders. It goes on to survey the developmental properties of the international sphere before concluding with a substantive review of the changing landscapes of contemporary leadership activity and the different ways that we come to terms with the theme of political leadership in an increasingly complex world.

Author : François Vergniolle De Chantal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137439246

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Leadership and Uncertainty Management in Politics by François Vergniolle De Chantal Pdf

Through a range of international case studies from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy, this text assesses the conditions necessary for effective leadership and emphasizes the part played by uncertainty and division amongst followers.

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199685936

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Political Leadership by Michael Foley Pdf

This authoritative volume analyses the practice and impact of political leadership, aiming to position it within a more integrated framework.

Author : Ofer Feldman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789904581

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The Rhetoric of Political Leadership by Ofer Feldman Pdf

This timely book details the theoretical and practical elements of political rhetoric and their effects on the interactions between politicians and the public. Expert contributors explore the issues associated with political rhetoric from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, linguistics, social psychology and communication studies. Chapters examine what makes a speech effective, politicians’ use of moral appeals in political advertising, political attacks on social media, and gender and emotion in political discourse.

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes,Paul 't Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199653881

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership by R. A. W. Rhodes,Paul 't Hart Pdf

Political leadership has returned to the forefront of research in political science in recent years, after several years of neglect. This Handbook provides a broad-ranging and cohesive examination of the study of political leadership.

Author : Eva Sørensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198777953

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Interactive Political Leadership by Eva Sørensen Pdf

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance. The purpose of the theoretical framework is to inspire and guide empirical research into how elected politicians perform political leadership in a society where citizens and other stakeholders play an active role in making and implementing political decisions and what barriers, challenges, and dilemmas they encounter in relation to the performance of interactive political leadership. The research framework draws extensively on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership and other new developments in political science and public administration research. Moreover, it finds inspiration in current tendencies and embryonic examples of interactive political leadership performed by elected politicians operating at different levels of governance in Western liberal democracies. The basic assumption is that political legitimacy is essential for the survival of a political system, and that interactive political leadership stands out as a promising way of securing what political scientists denote as input-, throughput-, output-, and outcome legitimacy in the age of governance. Hence, interactive political leadership aims to establish a bridge between representative democracy and emergent forms of political participation, to promote political learning and accountability, to strengthen the political entrepreneurship of elected politicians, and to advance the political system's implementation capacity through resource mobilization. The book develops 20 propositions that sets the agenda for a new and much needed field of empirical research into political leadership in the age of governance.

Author : R. Berg,N. Rao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230501331

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Transforming Political Leadership in Local Government by R. Berg,N. Rao Pdf

Local governments throughout the west are undergoing a transformation of their leadership styles and structures. Some countries have abandoned traditional systems of collective or committee based decision-making in favour of Cabinet models or, more radically, a directly-elected executive mayor, while others have strengthened existing mayoral systems. There are a few exceptions to this trend. Based on original research in eleven countries the book assesses these changes in terms of their implications for political accountability, the role of lay politicians, political recruitment, the professionalization of leadership, and relations with the bureaucracy.