Poor leadership and bad governance reassessing presidents and prime ministers in North America, Europe and Japan
1. Poor leadership and bad governance : conceptual perspectives and questions for comparative inquiry / Ludger Helms -- 2. In the grip of context : American presidents and their choices / Bert A. Rockman -- 3. Not necessarily leadership but leadership if necessary : Canadian prime ministers and the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
c2012
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| Series: | New horizons in leadership studies
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Poor leadership and bad governance : conceptual perspectives and questions for comparative inquiry / Ludger Helms -- 2. In the grip of context : American presidents and their choices / Bert A. Rockman -- 3. Not necessarily leadership but leadership if necessary : Canadian prime ministers and the management of expectations / Jonathan Malloy -- 4. The United Kingdom : prime ministerial leadership and the challenge of governance / Gillian Peele -- 5. Presidents behaving badly : poor leadership and bad governance in France / John Gaffney -- 6. Revisiting the German chancellorship : leadership weakness and democratic autocracy in the Federal Republic / Ludger Helms -- 7. Italy : goodness, badness, and the trajectories of mediocrity / Gianfranco Pasquino -- 8. Leadership, governance and statecraft in Russia / Richard Sakwa -- 9. Profiles in discourage : prime ministerial leadership in post-war Japan / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen -- 10. Conclusion Focusing on the presidents and prime ministers of the G8--the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan--it explores the complex relationship between weak and ineffective leadership, undemocratic leadership techniques, and bad policies from a broad comparative perspective. What makes leaders weak or bad in different contexts? What are the consequences of their actions and behaviour? And has there been any learning from negative experience? These questions are at the centre of this fascinating joint inquiry that involves a team of truly distinguished leadership scholars |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 215 p |
| ISBN: | 9780857932730 9780857932723 |