Comparative Political Leadership

342 Pages·2012·2.231 MB·English

by  Ludger Helms (eds.)

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP SERIES
Comparative Political Leadership
Edited by Ludger Helms
Comparative Political Leadership
Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership series
Series editors:
LUDGER HELMS , Professor of Political Science and Chair of Comparative
Politics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
ROBERT ELGIE , Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International
Studies, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
TAKASHI INOGUCHI , Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo and President,
University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan
GILLIAN PEELE , Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Lady Margaret Hall, University
of Oxford, UK
BERT A. ROCKMAN , Professor and Head of Department, Department of Political
Science, Purdue University, USA
Editorial Advisory Board:
BARBARA KELLERMAN , James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership,
Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA
ANTHONY KING , Essex County Council Millennium Professor of British
Government, University of Essex, UK
R. A. W. RHODES , Professor of Government, Faculty of Human and Social
Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
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Titles include:
Mark Bennister
PRIME MINISTERS IN POWER
Political Leadership in Britain and Australia
Ludger Helms ( editor )
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Kevin Theakston and Jouke de Vries ( editors )
FORMER LEADERS IN MODERN DEMOCRACIES
Political Sunsets
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of Comparative Politics,
University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Contents
List of Illustrations i x
Preface to the paperback edition xi
Notes on Contributors xii
1 Introduction: The Importance of Studying Political
Leadership Comparatively 1
Ludger Helms
2 Executive Leadership in Comparative Perspective:
Politicians, Bureaucrats and Public Governance 25
B. Guy Peters and Ludger Helms
3 Comparing Leadership Patterns and Dynamics in
the Legislative Arena 56
Philip Norton
4 The Presidentialization of Party Leadership? Evaluating Party
Leadership and Party Government in the Democratic World 7 7
Paul Webb, Thomas Poguntke and Robin Kolodny
5 Leadership in Social and Political Movements:
A Comparative Exploration 9 9
Dieter Rucht
6 Political Leadership in Times of Crisis: Comparing Leader
Responses to Financial Turbulence 119
Arjen Boin, Paul ‘t Hart and Femke van Esch
7 Comparative Keyword Analysis and Leadership
Communication: Tony Blair – A Study of Rhetorical Style 1 42
Jonathan Charteris-Black
8 Political Marketing and Opinion Leadership: Comparative
Perspectives and Findings 1 65
Jennifer Lees-Marshment
9 The Contributions of Political Psychology to
Comparative Political Leadership Analysis 1 86
Stanley A. Renshon
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viii Contents
10 C omparing and Assessing Gender Effects in
Political Leadership 2 07
Anne Stevens
11 ‘ Army of One or Join the Club?’ Comparing Local
Political Leadership in Europe 227
Kristof Steyvers, Herwig Reynaert and Tony Valcke
12 C onfronting the Challenges of Political Leadership in
International Organizations 2 49
Michael G. Schechter
13 Political Leadership in Old and New Democracies 2 72
Robert Elgie
14 C omparative Leadership in Non-democracies 2 92
Erica Frantz and Elizabeth A. Stein
Index 3 15
Illustrations
Tables
5.1 Features of political parties, pressure groups and
social/political movements 1 05
5.2 The role of leadership in different kinds of
social movements 109
5.3 Types of social movement leaders 110
6.1 Dominance of, and changes in, Merkel’s belief-system 126
6.2 Dominance of, and changes in, Weber’s belief-system 1 27
7.1 Reference corpus of British politicians’ speeches 1 52
7.2 Semantic categorization of top 100 keywords 153
7.3 Frequency of Tony Blair’s ‘style’ keywords 1 54
13.1 O ld and new democracies and regime types 2 76
13.2a The distribution of regime types across old and
new democracies with seven Latin American
democracies classified as old 2 77
13.2b The distribution of regime types across old and
new democracies with seven Latin American
democracies classified as new 2 77
13.3 M ean Siaroff scores in old and new democracies
with seven Latin American democracies classified
as old (Model 1) and new (Model 2) 280
13.4 Mean PPI scores in old and new democracies with
seven Latin American democracies classified as
old (Model 3) and new (Model 4) 2 81
13.5 A verage prime ministerial duration in old and
new democracies 284
Figures
3.1 Leadership in legislatures 5 9
6.1 Example of a cognitive map 125
6.2 Support for Brown’s policies 134
6.3 Support for Brown and poll results 1 35
7.1 Rhetorical style and political persuasion 1 46
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x List of Illustrations
11.1 Effect of leadership form on leadership attitudes and
behaviour: a neo-institutional model 2 41
14.1 Effect of the institutional setting of executive
leadership on leaders’ tenure and economic policy 307
Box
8.1 A model of a reflective political leader 1 69