Presidents, prime ministers, and chancellors executive leadership in western democracies /

Presidents, prime ministers, and chancellors [electronic resource] : executive leadership in western democracies / Ludger Helms.

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How have the American presidency, the British premiership and the German chancellorship changed over the last half-century? Has there been convergence or divergence in the development of political leadership in the United States and in the two largest democracies of Western Europe? What difference c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Helms, Ludger
Other title:Executive leadership in western democracies.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Executive power > Cross-cultural studies.
Political leadership > Cross-cultural studies.
Heads of state > Cross-cultural studies.
Democracy > Cross-cultural studies.
Democracy.
Executive power.
Heads of state.
Political leadership.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Studying executive leadership
  • Patterns of core executive leadership
  • The United States: variations of presidential predominance
  • Britain: prime ministers, cabinets and the struggle for supremacy
  • Germany: chancellor dominance and coalition rule
  • Executive leadership in the wider political process
  • The United States: providing leadership in an 'anti-leadership environment'
  • Britain: executive leadership from the top
  • Germany: governing a 'semi-sovereign state'
  • Making sense of complexity: comparative perspectives and conclusions.

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