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TYPES OF GOVERNMENTAL LEADERSHIP IN ATLANTIC COUNTRIES
Author(s) -
BLONDEL JEAN
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1977.tb01210.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , dimension (graph theory) , political science , leadership style , space (punctuation) , public relations , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , pure mathematics
The forms and characteristics of governmental leadership are typically studied within one or perhaps several countries. There is a need for a broader comparison: this paper, which is part of a world‐wide analysis of governmental leadership, looks at changes among top executives in all Atlantic countries since 1945. Having considered similarities and differences in duration, social background, and career characteristics, it shows that Atlantic leaders can be located on a two‐dimensional space in which one of the dimensions relates to the extent to which leaders are recognised as real “leaders” or are merely “rotating heads” of government, while the other dimension plots the extent to which leaders are viewed as “regular” or as “stopgap” chief executives.