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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
Edited by Ludger Helms, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Contents: 1. Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Conceptual Perspectives and Questions for Comparative InquiryLudger Helms 2. In the Grip of Context: American Presidents and their ChoicesBert 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 GovernanceGillian Peele 5. Presidents Behaving Badly: Poor Leadership and Bad Governance in FranceJohn 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 JapanEllis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen 10. Conclusion Ludger HelmsIndex
’Leadership and the lack of it is a central but underexplored issue in the study of contemporary politics. Ludger Helms is to be congratulated for bringing together a group of leading scholars to examine the relationship between leadership and governance.’
ANDEWEG ET AL, Andeweg Et Al, Rudy B. Andeweg, Robert Elgie, Ludger Helms, Juliet Kaarbo, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Leiden University) Andeweg, Rudy B. (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Dublin City University) Elgie, Robert (formerly Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, formerly Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Innsbruck) Helms, Ludger (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Edinburgh) Kaarbo, Juliet (Professor of Foreign Policy, Professor of Foreign Policy, Leuphana University Luneburg) Muller-Rommel, Ferdinand (Professor of Comparative Politics, Professor of Comparative Politics