The leadership capital index : a new perspective on political leadership

323 Pages·2017·1.545 MB·English

by  Mark Bennister, Ben Worthy, Paul 't Hart

The Leadership Capital Index

The Leadership Capital Index
A New Perspective on Political Leadership
Edited by
Mark Bennister, Ben Worthy, and Paul ‘t Hart
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Acknowledgments
The seeds of this project were sown several years ago. The original ideas
around leadership capital were first presented by Mark Bennister and Ben
Worthy at the Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference at the
UniversityofSwanseain2012.Theseideasweresubsequentlydevelopedand
improved as Paul ‘t Hart joined the team. This initial work was tested at a
specialseminarofthePSAPoliticalLeadershipSpecialistGroupattheUniver-
sityofLeedsin2012.WearegratefultothePOLISteamatLeeds,inparticular
Kevin Theakston, for providing this opportunity to set out the leadership
capital ideas. The work was further tested at the PSA Political Leadership
Annual Conference at the University of East Anglia in January 2014 and we
are grateful to Toby James for his support. Subsequently the framework was
published in West European Politics; meanwhile we were keen to develop
comparative case study analysis. The European Consortium of Political
Research (ECPR) provided the forum in which country experts could apply
the leadership capital concept and the index to a range of cases. We are
grateful for the support which the ECPR and the University of Salamanca
provided in April2014 ata most productive workshop. Wewish to acknow-
ledgeallthosewhoparticipatedintheworkshop,regardlessofwhetherthey
contributed chapters to this volume. Our theoretical framework and index
benefited from the input of participants, who also gave valued assistance in
highlighting national political contexts relevant to their own cases. Indeed,
theentireprojecthasbeenenhancedbythecollaborativeprocessinvolvedin
producingthisvolume.
Wewouldalsoliketothankallthosewhoprovidedfeedbackandcomments
ondraftsatvariousstages,particularlyRodRhodesandPaulWebb.Wehave
presented papers at our home universities in research seminars and Mark
BennisterbenefitedfromCanterburyChristChurchUniversityresearchfund-
ing.MarijSwinkelsacknowledgesthegenerousresearchfundingforherwork
on this project received from CRISMART, Center for Crisis Management
Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University. We have also
presentedatseveralPSA,ECPReventsandatthe1stInternationalConference
ofthePublicandPoliticalLeadership(PUPOL)Network.Wearegratefultoall
Acknowledgments
theresearchstudentsandcolleagueswhohaveprovidedsupportandsugges-
tionsattheseevents.OurgreatestdebtofgratitudegoestoMirthedeKokwho
tookontheHerculeantaskofknockingthechaptersintoaconsistentshape.
WeoweadebtofgratitudetotheefficientandhelpfulstaffatOxfordUniver-
sityPress,inparticularDominicByattandOliviaWells.
Wededicatethisbooktoourfamiliesand,inparticular,tothememoryof
StellaBennister.
MarkBennister
BenWorthy
Paul‘tHart
June2016
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofTables xi
NotesonContributors xiii
1. UnderstandingPoliticalLeadership:TheLeadership
CapitalApproach 1
MarkBennister,Paul‘tHart,andBenWorthy
2. TurningStructuralWeaknessintoPersonalStrength:
AngelaMerkelandthePoliticsofLeadershipCapitalinGermany 27
LudgerHelmsandFemkevanEsch
3. “NoLoansforLadies”:JuliaGillardandCapitalDenied 45
JamesWalter
4. FromTriumphtoTragedy:TheLeadershipParadoxofLyndon
BainesJohnson 63
JonJohansson
5. A“Meteoric”CareerinHungarianPolitics 82
AndrásKörösényi,PéterOndré,andAndrásHajdú
6. JerryBrownandtheTriumphofLeadership:LeadershipCapital
andtheFinancialRescueofCalifornia 101
CharlesF.Parker
7. LimitstoDominance?ComparingtheLeadershipCapital
ofMargaretThatcherandTonyBlair 121
MarkBennisterandBenWorthy
8. (Mis)ManagingLeadershipCapital:CanadianPrimeMinisters 144
JonathanMalloy
9. ModernPrime-MinisterialLeadershipintheNetherlands:
ConsensusorConfrontation? 164
MarijSwinkels,SabinevanZuydam,andFemkevanEsch
Contents
10. SwedishCoalitionGovernmentsandtheQuestforRe-election 183
FredrikBynanderandPärDaléus
11. LeadershipCapitalinaProtractedCrisis:SpanishPrime
MinistersCompared 207
JoséA.OlmedaandCésarColino
12. TheLeadershipCapitalofItalianPresidents:ThePolitics
ofConstraintandMoralSuasion 226
SelenaGrimaldi
13. MeasuringandUsingLeadershipCapital:IssuesandExtension 250
JeanBlondel
14. LeadershipCapital:ABourdieuianReinterpretation 263
ErikJentges
15. Conclusions:LCIRevisited 279
MarkBennister,Paul‘tHart,andBenWorthy
Index 295
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List of Figures
2.1. Trajectoryofarock-solidleader 29
2.2. Merkel’sleadershipcapital2005–2010 38
4.1. Johnson’sLCIscoresacrosstime 77
5.1. ThepopularityofFerencGyurcsányandViktorOrbán 92
6.1. Timetrends:ApprovalratingsforGov.Brownandthe
Californialegislature 110
7.1. Netapprovalratings:ThatcherandBlair 129
7.2. ThatcherandBlair’sleadershipcapital 138
10.1. Bildt’spersonalpollratingrelativetotheoppositionleader 187
10.2. Bildt’slevelofpublictrustinrelationtotheoppositionleader’s 189
10.3. Reinfeldt’spersonalpollratingrelativetotheoppositionleader 196
10.4. Reinfeldt’slevelofpublictrustinrelationtotheoppositionleader’s 197
11.1. Primeministerinterviewswithbroadcastmedia:Rodríguez
Zapatero2004–2008,and2008–2011;Rajoy2012–2015 214
11.2. RodríguezZapatero’spersonalpollratingrelativetotheopposition
leader(meanover10),2004–2007,and2008–2011 214
11.3. SnapshotsofZapatero’sandRajoy’sleadershipcapital 222
12.1. CommunicativeperformanceofItalianpresidents,monthly
visibilitymeanoftotaltime(TT)onthreeRaiChannels
(secondsperyear) 236
12.2. LeveloftrustofItalianpresidentsperyear(percentagevalues) 240
14.1. Thepoliticalfieldanditsenvironment 269
14.2. Personalpoliticalcapital 274
14.3. Delegatedpoliticalcapital 274