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The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership
Contributor(s): Rhodes, R. A. W. (Editor), 't Hart, Paul (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0198778511     ISBN-13: 9780198778516
Publisher: OUP Oxford
OUR PRICE: $54.15  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process - General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - General
Dewey: 324.22
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" L (3.00 lbs) 798 pages
 
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Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies from the 1940s to the 1970s. Thereafter,
the field lost its way with the rise of structuralism, neo-institutionalism, and rational choice approaches to the study of politics, government, and governance. Recently, however, students of politics have returned to studying the role of individual leaders and the exercise of leadership to explain
political outcomes. The list of topics is nigh endless: elections, conflict management, public policy, government popularity, development, governance networks, and regional integration. In the media age, leaders are presented and stage-managed--spun--DDLas the solution to almost every social
problem. Through the mass media and the Internet, citizens and professional observers follow the rise, impact, and fall of senior political officeholders at closer quarters than ever before.

This Handbook encapsulates the resurgence by asking, where are we today? It orders the multidisciplinary field by identifying the distinct and distinctive contributions of the disciplines. It meets the urgent need to take stock. It brings together scholars from around the world, encouraging a
comparative perspective, to provide a comprehensive coverage of all the major disciplines, methods, and regions. It showcases both the normative and empirical traditions in political leadership studies, and juxtaposes behavioural, institutional, and interpretive approaches. It covers formal,
office-based as well as informal, emergent political leadership, and in both democratic and undemocratic polities.
 
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