Leadership in American politics /
Leadership is unquestionably important in politics and policy, but defining what leadership is and determining how it is important systematically, is often difficult. The contributors to this volume examine whether the form and content of leadership in the United States varies across governmental un...
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: studying leadership in American politics / Jeffery A. Jenkins and Craig Volden
- Part. I Leadership from the top
- House leadership and the speakership of John Boehner / Barbara Sinclair and Gregory Koger
- Leaders and partisanship in the modern senate / Steven S. Smith
- A president's decisions and the presidential difference / Matthew N. Beckmann
- Presidential leadership in American foreign policy / Philip B. K. Potter
- Great judges: judicial leadership in theory and practice / Charles M. Cameron and Mehdi Shadmehr
- Part II. Leadership across institutions
- Parties and leadership in American politics / David Karol
- Leadership and interest groups / Timothy M. Lapira
- Leadership and the bureaucracy / John W. Patty
- Leadership in the states / James Coleman Battista
- Part III. Assessing leadership in American politics
- Leadership: a definition / William G. Howell and Stephane Wolton
- Filters and pegs in holes: how selection mechanisms and institutional positions shape (perceptions of) political leadership / Alan E. Wiseman
- What do political leaders do? / Eric M. Patashnik
- Notes on contributors
- Index.