Leadership and Uncertainty Management in Politics
Subtitle: Leaders, Followers and Constraints in Western Democracies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 12, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781137439239
Description: Through a range of international case studies from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy, this engaging new text examines political leadership and considers the rise in the Executive powers of Western democracies in the last few decades. Unlike earlier assessments of the subject, which have emphasized the importance of a unified force of followers rallying behind a public figure, this volume argues that leadership can also be understood as a risk-taking venture which takes advantage of uncertainty among voters. Assessing the conditions necessary for effective leadership, it emphasizes the part played by indecision and division amongst followers and shows that political leadership can be a cause in itself, which cannot be reduced to a mere consequence of a chain of previous events.
Notes: Source title: Leadership and Uncertainty Management in Politics: Leaders, Followers and Constraints in Western Democracies (Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership)