Author: Colin Campbell
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976757
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Eighteen distinguished scholars and practicing officials address the problems of executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Individual essays focus on cabinet government; domestic, military, and economic advisers; executive agencies; and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. Provocative comparisons between and among systems make the discussions particularly insightful.
Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems
Author: Colin Campbell
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976757
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Eighteen distinguished scholars and practicing officials address the problems of executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Individual essays focus on cabinet government; domestic, military, and economic advisers; executive agencies; and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. Provocative comparisons between and among systems make the discussions particularly insightful.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976757
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Eighteen distinguished scholars and practicing officials address the problems of executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Individual essays focus on cabinet government; domestic, military, and economic advisers; executive agencies; and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. Provocative comparisons between and among systems make the discussions particularly insightful.
Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems
Author: Colin B. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608220697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608220697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems
Author: Colin Campbell
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This collection of essays addresses the problems of contemporary executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, focusing on cabinet government, domestic, military and economic advisers, executive agencies and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. The 18 essays offer comparisons between and among the various systems discussed.
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This collection of essays addresses the problems of contemporary executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, focusing on cabinet government, domestic, military and economic advisers, executive agencies and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. The 18 essays offer comparisons between and among the various systems discussed.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership
Author: Mikhail A. Molchanov
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317042123
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Discussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide, this research companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for an international readership. The editors combine empirical and normative approaches to emphasize the centrality of political culture, as well as the limits of culture and the universal demands of innovative adaptation. The volume examines: ¢
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317042123
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Discussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide, this research companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for an international readership. The editors combine empirical and normative approaches to emphasize the centrality of political culture, as well as the limits of culture and the universal demands of innovative adaptation. The volume examines: ¢
Transforming British Government
Author: R. Rhodes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Examines the changing roles and relationships of the Prime Minister, ministers and civil servants. Edited by Rod Rhodes and written by a team of distinguished political scientists and historians these volumes provide an authoritative account of how British government has changed over the past fifty years.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Examines the changing roles and relationships of the Prime Minister, ministers and civil servants. Edited by Rod Rhodes and written by a team of distinguished political scientists and historians these volumes provide an authoritative account of how British government has changed over the past fifty years.
Politics within the State
Author: Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297679X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Brazil was one of the most successful examples of state-led industrialization in the post-1945 era. Yet, on the surface, the Brazilian bureaucracy appears highly fragmented, personalized, and ad-hoc. Ben Ross Schneider looks behind this fa ade to explain how the Brazilian bureaucracy contributes to industrialization by analyzing career patterns and appointments which structure incentives and power more than formal organizations or institutions. Politics and personalism, of the right sort, Schneider argues, can in fact enhance policy effectiveness and state capacity.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297679X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Brazil was one of the most successful examples of state-led industrialization in the post-1945 era. Yet, on the surface, the Brazilian bureaucracy appears highly fragmented, personalized, and ad-hoc. Ben Ross Schneider looks behind this fa ade to explain how the Brazilian bureaucracy contributes to industrialization by analyzing career patterns and appointments which structure incentives and power more than formal organizations or institutions. Politics and personalism, of the right sort, Schneider argues, can in fact enhance policy effectiveness and state capacity.
The Prime Minister-Media Nexus
Author: Karl Magnus Johansson
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303112152X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers. It aims at an understanding of how media has caused institutional effects in government, as well as at advancing a unified theory of government communication. The author develops a logic of centralization and applies it to one case, Sweden. Government communication has been institutionalized, tightened and centralized with the prime minister and has changed irreversibly. Analysis of how the government communication system has evolved, mainly in its institutional structures, suggests that the shift to centralization arose more out of necessity than choice. For prime ministers most of this is about finding ways to ensure that the entire government respond to media uniformly. As governments face a set of functional demands from media, different kinds of media, uniformity has been a paramount objective. Nevertheless, this development involves shifting dynamics of intra-executive relations and a shift of power away from ministries to the prime minister’s office; the apex of political power. The prime minister has been empowered at the expense of ministers through the concentration of power and resources to the executive centre. That is partly because of media, which reinforces political hierarchies. That and the centralized control of government news in turn raises further questions about democratic governance and the nature of modern-day governing.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303112152X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers. It aims at an understanding of how media has caused institutional effects in government, as well as at advancing a unified theory of government communication. The author develops a logic of centralization and applies it to one case, Sweden. Government communication has been institutionalized, tightened and centralized with the prime minister and has changed irreversibly. Analysis of how the government communication system has evolved, mainly in its institutional structures, suggests that the shift to centralization arose more out of necessity than choice. For prime ministers most of this is about finding ways to ensure that the entire government respond to media uniformly. As governments face a set of functional demands from media, different kinds of media, uniformity has been a paramount objective. Nevertheless, this development involves shifting dynamics of intra-executive relations and a shift of power away from ministries to the prime minister’s office; the apex of political power. The prime minister has been empowered at the expense of ministers through the concentration of power and resources to the executive centre. That is partly because of media, which reinforces political hierarchies. That and the centralized control of government news in turn raises further questions about democratic governance and the nature of modern-day governing.
The Europeanisation of National Administrations
Author: Christoph Knill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy.
Good Advice
Author: Daniel E. Ponder
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603447126
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The U.S. president has to make difficult, important, and very public decisions every day. We don't expect one person to be an expert in all the areas in which the president has to make decisions. So how do presidents do it? They rely on their staffs to give information and advice. "Good Advice" is a systematic study of Jimmy Carter's reign and those who advised him. Daniel E. Ponder discusses the president's policies, the advisors behind each, and how much of that advice ultimately became incorporated into the president's official proposals. The book's central thesis is that although presidents have tended to centralize policy-making authority in the White House staff, the dynamics of staff participation and consequent policy success vary from issue to issue, consistent with a theoretical framework Ponder calls staff shift. Ponder further analyzes how presidents decide whose advice to take and whose to ignore and the politics behind those decisions. Ponder examines each of the three major roles of staff advisory--policy directors, facilitators, and monitors--and discusses a "successful" and unsuccessful policy in each. He focuses on the six policy areas of education, youth employment, welfare reform, energy, national health insurance, and civil service reform. Ponder draws from myriad theoretical and methodological traditions to construct a sophisticated foundation upon which his analysis builds. His development of theoretical insights, backed with exhaustive documentation, contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of the presidency in its organizational and institutional environments. For those interested in presidential studies and American politics, this innovative study takes you into the Oval Office as it explains the process from information- and advice-giving to policy making in the presidency.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603447126
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The U.S. president has to make difficult, important, and very public decisions every day. We don't expect one person to be an expert in all the areas in which the president has to make decisions. So how do presidents do it? They rely on their staffs to give information and advice. "Good Advice" is a systematic study of Jimmy Carter's reign and those who advised him. Daniel E. Ponder discusses the president's policies, the advisors behind each, and how much of that advice ultimately became incorporated into the president's official proposals. The book's central thesis is that although presidents have tended to centralize policy-making authority in the White House staff, the dynamics of staff participation and consequent policy success vary from issue to issue, consistent with a theoretical framework Ponder calls staff shift. Ponder further analyzes how presidents decide whose advice to take and whose to ignore and the politics behind those decisions. Ponder examines each of the three major roles of staff advisory--policy directors, facilitators, and monitors--and discusses a "successful" and unsuccessful policy in each. He focuses on the six policy areas of education, youth employment, welfare reform, energy, national health insurance, and civil service reform. Ponder draws from myriad theoretical and methodological traditions to construct a sophisticated foundation upon which his analysis builds. His development of theoretical insights, backed with exhaustive documentation, contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of the presidency in its organizational and institutional environments. For those interested in presidential studies and American politics, this innovative study takes you into the Oval Office as it explains the process from information- and advice-giving to policy making in the presidency.
The Hollow Crown
Author: Herman Bakvis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349258709
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349258709
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.