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Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies from the 1940s to the 1970s. Thereafter, the field lost its way with the rise of structuralism, neo-institutionalism, and rational choice approaches to the study of politics, government, and governance. Recently, however, students of politics have returned to studying the role of individual leaders and the exercise of leadership to explain political outcomes. The list of topics is nigh endless: elections, conflict management, public policy, government popularity, development, governance networks, and regional integration. In the media age, leaders are presented and stage-managed - spun - as the solution to almost every social problem

Books reviewed in this essay:K.J. Bade and M. Weiner (Eds), Migration Past, Migration Future: Germany and the United StatesR. Münz and M. Weiner (Eds), Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy: U.S. and German Policies Towards Countries of OriginK. Hailbronner and D.A. Martin (Eds), Immigration Admissions: The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United StatesK. Hailbronner, D.A. Martin and H. Motomura (Eds), Immigration Controls: The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United StatesP. Schuck and R. Münz (Eds), Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany

1. On studying policy successes in Australia and New Zealand / Joannah Luetjens, Michael Mintrom and Paul 't Hart -- Part I: Policy successes in Australia. 2. Responding to HIV/AIDS: Mobilisation through partnerships in a public health crisis / Lisa Fitzgerald and Allyson Mutch, with Lisa Herron -- 3. The Higher Education Contribution Scheme: Keeping tertiary education affordable and accessible / Timothy Higgins -- 4. The 53-billion-dollar question: Was Australia's 2009-2010 fiscal stimulus a good thing? / Alan Fenna and Paul 't Hart -- 5. 'Marvellous Melbourne': Making the world's most liveable city / Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis -- 6. The Child Support Scheme: What innovative collaboration can achieve / Meredith Edwards -- 7. The Australian water markets story: Incremental transformation / James Horne and R. Quentin Grafton -- 8. National competition policy: Effective stewardship of markets / Alan Fenna -- 9. The 'perfect storm' of gun control: From policy inertia to world leader / Philip Alpers and Zareh Ghazarian -- 10. The Goods and Services Tax (GST): The public value of a contested reform /Binh Tran-Nam -- 11. Medicare: The making and consolidation of an Australian institution / Anne-marie Boxall -- 12. Avoiding the Global Financial Crisis in Australia: A policy success? / Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor -- 13. Thinking outside the box: Tobacco plain packaging and the demise of smoking / Becky Freeman -- Part II: Policy successes in New Zealand. 14. New Zealand's universal no-fault accident compensation scheme: Embedding community responsibility / Grant Duncan -- 15. New Zealand's economic turnaround: How public policy innovation catalysed economic growth / Michael Mintrom and Madeline Thomas -- 16. Nuclear-free New Zealand: Contingency, contestation and consensus in public policymaking / David Capie -- 17. Treaty of Waitangi settlements: Successful symbolic reparation / Janine Hayward -- 18. The Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994: How a nonbinding policy instrument proved highly powerful / Derek Gill -- 19. Early childhood education policy pathways: A learning story / Sandy Farquhar and Andrew Gibbons -- 20. KiwiSaver: A jewel in the crown of New Zealand's retirement income framework? / Kirsten MacDonald and Ross Guest -- 21. Whānau Ora: An Indigenous policy success story / Verna Smith, Charlotte Moore, Jacqueline Cumming and Amohia Boulton.

This volume provides a conceptual framework to measure and evaluate the fluctuating nature of the 'leadership capital' of political leaders.

The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era

The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era.

Prime ministers stand at the apex of government and loom large in the consciousness of the nations they lead. This book examines how prime ministers operate and how their performance as public leaders can be understood and evaluated.

"This volume explores "postcrisis politics," examining how crises give birth to longer-term dynamic processes of accountability and learning characterised by official investigations, blame games, political manoeuvering, media scrutiny and crisis exploitation. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary crises, including Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Madrid train bombings, the Walkerton water contamination, the destruction of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia and the Boxing Day Asian tsunami, this volume addresses the longer-term impact of crisis-induced politics. Competing pressures for stability and change mean that policies, institutions and leaders may occasionally be uprooted but often survive largely intact. This volume explores why and under what conditions preservation trumps reform in the wake of crisis."--Jacket

In this article, using our original data on party leadership succession in 23 parliamentary democracies, we investigate the determinants of a party leader's survival rate: how long he/she remains in office. Unlike previous studies, which focus on institutional settings of leadership selection or on situational (political, economic and international) conditions at the time of succession, we propose a perceptual theory of leadership survival, focusing on the expectations of party constituents (or indirectly, the voting public) who have the power to remove a leader. Specifically, we argue that they 'benchmark' their expectation of a current party leader's performance by comparing it against their memory of that leader's immediate predecessor. Empirically, we show that party leaders who succeeded a (very) long-serving party leader and/or a leader who had also been the head of government experience lower longevity than others, making these types of predecessor 'hard acts to follow'.

The academic literature on celebrity politics is rarely systematic; more often it is superficial and anecdotal. In addition, most of the literature focuses either upon classifying different types/categories of celebrity politicians and their roles in politics, or upon the question of whether the growth of celebrity politics undermines or enhances democracy. In this article we consider both of these issues more systematically and, in doing so, work towards a more coherent understanding of the mechanisms that influence modern governance and the operation of contemporary democracy.