Poor leadership and bad governance : reassessing presidents and prime ministers in North America, Europe and Japan
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Poor leadership and bad governance : reassessing presidents and prime ministers in North America, Europe and Japan
（New horizons in leadership studies）
Edward Elgar, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In leadership research there is a long tradition of focusing attention on the great and successful leaders and, more recently, on issues of good governance. This study breaks new ground by looking systematically into the manifestations and causes of poor leadership and bad governance in some of the world's most powerful democracies. 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 behavior? And has there been any learning from negative experience? These questions are at the center of this fascinating joint inquiry that involves a team of truly distinguished leadership scholars.
This book will prove invaluable for scholars and students of leadership, political science, contemporary history, and related academic disciplines. Readers with a general interest in public affairs and political history will also find plenty to interest them.
Contributors: J. Gaffney, L. Helms, E.S. Krauss, J. Malloy, G. Pasquino, G. Peele, R. Pekkanen, B.A. Rockman, R. Sakwa
Table of Contents
Contents:
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
Ludger Helms
Index
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