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Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan
Author(s): Ludger Helms
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857932721
- ISBN-13: 9780857932723
Book Description
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
Editorial Reviews
Review
Poor Leadership and Bad Governance
is an invaluable contribution to modern political science shelves. . . Highly recommended.’ — Midwest Book Review ’Leaders are not always heroes. Bad public leadership is a big problem. If we are serious about holding our public leaders to account, then we need to know why they were bad, and why we supported them. Ludger Helms and his distinguished team tackle these difficult questions with sympathy, not cynicism. Their careful and insightful analysis alerts us to the dangers of venal and poorly performing leaders.’ — R.A.W. Rhodes, University of Southampton, UK
