Political leaders and leadership

"Die Revolution ist kein Apfel, der vom Baum fällt, wenn er reif ist; man muss machen, dass er fällt.

Wenn Wirtschaft und Politik mal wieder verrückt spielen, sei die Frage gestattet: Was würde Lenin tun?

Bis heute faszinieren Denken und Persönlichkeit der Wortführerin der linken Sozialdemokratie aus den Zeiten des Kaiserreichs, sorgen für kontroverse Diskussionen nicht nur in linken Bewegungen.

"Marx ist zurück!

Leon Witt hat es geschafft: Obwohl menschengemachte Kunst eigentlich kaum noch eine Rolle spielt und die meisten Werke von Algorithmen geschaffen werden, ist das 39-jährige Genie zum Superstar aufgestiegen.

This book argues that the relationship between political parties, civil service and party insider groups in Bulgaria is oligarchic.

This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste.

This book assesses the 1991 Child Support Act and demonstrates how its failure was 'foreseeable' and 'foreseen'.

This book examines how local agencies in Cambodia and Mindanao (the Philippines) have developed their own models of peacebuilding under the strong influence and advocacy of external intervention.

This book offers an analysis of Putin's approval ratings from the fall of the USSR to the present day.

This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012).

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post-Cold War era, beginning with George H.

This book provides a global overview of populist actors and strategies around the globe from a comparative perspective.

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of how the human face drives many of our most important social behaviors.

This book provides a scholarly assessment and analysis of the Trump campaign and early presidency.

"e;As a Journal Editor for over twenty-five years, I have read a lot about the European Union.

"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.

This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milosevic Serbia after 2000.

This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style.

This book examines the UK prime minister's political leadership in the domestic executive.

This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects.

Historically, segments of white Americans have let racist paranoia supersede judicious reasoning throughout our history.

This book explores speeches by American presidents.

Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.

The book is a case study of Putin's use of the tactics of divide and rule in relation to, particularly, the hard-line elements among his supporters.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.

How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades.

This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991.

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The book offers a comprehensive analysis of public opinion toward presidential candidate spouses over the course of three decades, drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks including the concept of "e;new traditionalism"e; and a plethora of empirical data to explore why some spouses engender greater support than others-and what these reactions reveal about the American public and the gendered nature of the American presidency.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United States and China.

When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers?

This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics.

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This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on 'neo-democracy'.

This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic.

This book describes the main contradictions in China's actions on the world stage-peaceful vs.

This book studies the developments of the Brexit process between June 2016 and June 2017.

This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the 'technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.

This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country's anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized.

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency.

This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.

This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon.

This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People's Republic of China.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.

This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump's election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system.

This book analyses the processes and factors that contributed to the emergence and eventual consolidation of the Greek Cypriot Right in the era of British colonialism.

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

This volume focuses on the 2016 Presidential campaign from a communication perspective, with each chapter considering a specific area of political campaign communication and practice.