Executive leadership in Anglo-American systems /
In this collection, eighteen distinguished scholars and practicing officials address the problems of contemporary executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Essays focus on cabinet government; domestic, military, and economic advisers; executive agencies; and personal...
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
©1991.
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| Series: | Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.11895556 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Colin Campbell and Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
- Pt. I. Executive Leadership: Why the Sense of Malaise?
- 2. The Leadership Question: Is There an Answer? / Bert A. Rockman
- 3. Executive Leadership in an Age of Overload and Retrenchment / B. Guy Peters
- 4. The Discontinuous Institutional Presidency / Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
- Pt. II. Cabinet Government: A Clean Bill of Health?
- 5. Presidentialization in a Parliamentary System? / George W. Jones
- 6. Cabinet Government in Canada: Corporate Management of a Confederal Executive / Peter Aucoin
- 7. A View from the Cabinet in Canada / Thomas Hockin
- Pt. III. Advice to Presidents and Prime Ministers on Domestic and Economic Policy
- 8. The Council of Economic Advisers / Roger B. Porter
- 9. OMB: Professionalism, Politicization, and the Presidency / James P. Pfiffner
- 10. Providing Countervailing Analysis and Advice in a Career-Dominated Bureaucratic System: The British Experience, 1916-1988 / William Plowden
- 11. Executive Office Agencies and Advisory Policy Units / Stuart E. Eizenstat
- Pt. IV. Advice to Presidents and Prime Ministers on Foreign and Defense Policy
- 12. The National Security Adviser: A Presidential Perspective / Kevin V. Mulcahy and Harold F. Kendrick
- 13. National Security Affairs: A Defense Department Perspective / Lawrence J. Korb
- 14. The Whitehall Model: Career Staff Support for Cabinet in Foreign Affairs / Peter Hennessy
- Pt. V. Personal Staff for Presidents and Prime Ministers
- 15. White House Staffing: Salvation, Damnation, and Uncertainty / Joseph A. Pika
- 16. New and Old Lessons on White House Management / Samuel Kernell
- 17. Support for Prime Ministers: A Comparative Perspective / Patrick Weller
- 18. The Role of Press Secretaries on Chief Executive Staffs in Anglo-American Systems / Colin Seymour-Ure.