Governing by Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies - Couverture rigide

Baylis, Thomas A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887069444 ISBN 13 : 9780887069444

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

Governing by Committee is the first book-length study to examine decision-making among political executives. It examines sixteen advanced Western and Communist states and shows that collegial and semi-collegial patterns are far more common than is generally assumed.

Contrary to the assertions of Max Weber, Baylis contends that modern bureaucracy, with its growing role in policy-making and its intimate association with neocorporatist forms of interest group representation, offers a particularly congenial setting for collegial leadership.

A timely study, Governing by Committee opens a new dimension in the comparative study of political executives. But it also complements and contributes to the existing literature on political leadership, decision-making, consociationalism, and neocorporatism. It belongs as well to the still relatively small number of works comparing the politics of advanced Western and Communist states.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas A. Baylis is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887069444
• ISBN 13: 9780887069444
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible