Leadership in Context

The seven essays in Leadership in Context explore important questions at the heart of understanding political leadership. The relationship between personal political skill, the strength or weakness of institutional roles available to leaders, and the changing historical and political context in which leaders act forms the central discussion of each chapter.

Marcel Danesi is professor of anthropology, semiotics, and communication theory at the University of Toronto.

Introduction: Political Leadership in Context

Erwin C. Hargrove and John E. Owens

1

(16)

Presidential Leadership: Skill in Context

Erwin C. Hargrove

17

(26)

Late Twentieth Century Congressional Leaders as Shapers of and Hostages to Political Context: Gingrich, Hastert, and Lott

John E. Owens

43

(46)

Political Skills and Context in Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britain

Kevin Theakston

89

(42)

The Prime Minister in Canada and the Rise of Personalized Leadership

Colin Campbell

131

(32)

Comparing Jacques Delors and Jacques Santer as Presidents of the European Commission: Skill in Supranational Context

Christopher J. Lord

163

(24)

The Leadership Styles of the German Chancellors from Schmidt to Schroder

Christine Margerum Harlen

187

(24)

The Essence of Presidential Leadership in France: Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, and Chirac as Coalition Builders

David S. Bell

211

(25)

Index

236

(11)

About the Contributors

247

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