Political Leaders Beyond Party Politics

• Main Author: Musella, Fortunato (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political leadership.; Democracy.; Comparative politics.; Elections.; Political Leadership.; Comparative Politics.; Electoral Politics.

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency. Based on data covering a large set of Western countries, and focusing on the trends of personalisation of politics, the volume is one of the first empirical investigations into how party leaders are elected, how long they stay in off...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter I. Leader and Party: Still an Oxymoron?
• Chapter II. The Direct Election of Party Heads
• Chapter III. The Iron Law of Leadership: Ideology and Party Organization
• Chapter IV. The Party Leader in Government
• Chapter V. Leaders in Business
• Chapter VI. The Personal Side of Politics.