| Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Helms, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140394251X ISBN-13: 9781403942517 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 352.236 |
| LCCN: 2004056901 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.44" W x 7.64" (0.89 lbs) 315 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? And what difference can individual leaders make in an ever-more complex political environment? Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors addresses these questions by looking at the leadership performance of more than two dozen American presidents, British prime ministers and German chancellors of the post-1945 period. In so doing, it offers a unique perspective on the nature of executive leadership in Western democracies that takes into account both the international and the historical dimension of comparison. |