Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies

✍ Scribed by Ludger Helms

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the leadership performances of the political chief executives in the United States, Britain and Germany since the end of the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of material, Ludger Helms provides a genuinely comparative perspective on the conditions and manifestations of executive leadership in three of the world's largest established democracies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Part I Introduction......Page 14
1 Studying Executive Leadership......Page 16
Classifications of Modern Executives......Page 21
Levels of Executive Activity......Page 24
The Choice of Countries......Page 28
Main Currents of Executive Leadership Research......Page 29
Key Questions and Plan of the Book......Page 35
Part II Patterns of Core Executive Leadership......Page 38
The Political Profiles of American Post-war Presidents......Page 40
Staffing the Cabinet and the White House Office......Page 43
Styles of Presidential Core Executive Decision-making......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 68
The Political Profiles of British Post-war Prime Ministers......Page 71
Staffing the Cabinet and the Administrative Core Executive......Page 74
Core Executive Leadership in Britain......Page 83
Conclusion......Page 100
The Political Profile of German Post-war Chancellors......Page 103
Staffing the Cabinet and the Chancellery......Page 108
Core Executive Leadership in Germany......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 133
Part III Executive Leadership in the Wider Political Process......Page 138
Presidential Leadership in the Congressional Arena......Page 140
Presidential Leadership and the Influence of other Political Players in the American System......Page 157
The Public Presidency......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 170
Executive Leadership in the Parliamentary Arena......Page 174
The Scarcity of Institutional Barriers against Majority Rule......Page 188
British Governments, the Public and the Media......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 200
Executive Leadership in the Parliamentary Arena......Page 204
Executive Leadership in a 'Semi-sovereign State'......Page 218
German Governments, the Public and the Media......Page 227
Conclusion......Page 233
Part IV Conclusion......Page 236
8 Making Sense of Complexity: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusions......Page 238
Executive Leadership within the Core Executive......Page 239
Executive Leadership in the Wider Political Process......Page 254
Manifestations of 'Presidentialism' in Britain and Germany......Page 265
Concluding Remarks......Page 272
Notes......Page 275
References......Page 296
B......Page 320
C......Page 321
E......Page 322
G......Page 323
K......Page 324
O......Page 325
P......Page 326
S......Page 327
Z......Page 328