Leadership and Politics New Perspectives in Political Science Edited by Bryan D. Jones viii, 304 pages, 6 x 9 Studies in Government and Public Policy Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-0408-1, $17.95 Few aspects of public life are scrutinized and debated as intensely as leadership. It is crucial to the welfare of nations, the survival of political parties, and the functioning of interest groups and public corporations. And, as this volume demonstrates, political leadership is both a complex and elusive quality. In twelve provocative, state-of-the-art essays, leading scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership from the shifting, kaleidescopic perspectives of the leaders, institutions, goals, procedures, problems, and traditions involved. The approaches, as varied as the subject itself, coalesce around the central question of how leaders interact with, transform, or are controlled by the organizations they lead. Whether it's Erwin Hargrove writing on leadership in the TVA, Aaron Wildavsky on the relation between leadership and regime type, Clarence Stone on urban leadership, Morris Fiorina and Kenneth Shepsle on leadership and public choice theory, Robert Harmel on oligarchy in West Germany's Green Party, or George Edwards on presidential leadership in Congress, the authors provide perceptive analyses and suggest new directions for the discipline. For anyone concerned with the problems and potential of leadership in public life in the U.S. and Europe, these essays are certain to spark further debate on the question of political leadership. Contents Introduction: Causation, Constraint, and Political Leadership Formal Theories of Leadership: Agents, Agenda-Setters, and Entrepreneurs Morris Fiorina and Kenneth Shepsle Leader-Follower Interactions in Mass Democracies Bryan Jones Two Conceptions of Institutional Leadership Erwin C. Hargrove A Cultural Theory of Leadership Aaron Wildavsky Strategies of Political Leadership in Diverse Settings Frank Baumgartner Paradigms, Power, and Urban Leadership Clarence Stone The Iron Law of Oligarchy Revisited Robert Harmel Leadership in the International System: Bismarck and Washington Compared Manus Midlarsky Presidential Leadership of Congress: The Role of Legislative Skills George C. Edwards III Coalition Leadership, Government Stability, and Macroeconomic Policy in European Democracies John Robertson Bureaucratic Leadership in Public Organizations Kenneth Meier Concluding Comments: Two Conceptions of Political Leadership Revisited Bryan Jones BRYAN D. JONES is professor of political science and director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington. His books include The Sustaining Hand: Community Leadership and Corporate Power and Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools.   Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order New Books: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series Books in Print: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series ©2007 University Press of Kansas 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, KS 66045-4444 Phone (785) 864-4155; Fax (785) 864-4586