ABOUT THIS BOOK

Eighteen distinguished scholars and practicing officials address the problems of executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Individual essays focus on cabinet government; domestic, military, and economic advisers; executive agencies; and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. Provocative comparisons between and among systems make the discussions particularly insightful.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Colin Campbell is Canada Research Chair in US Government and Politics at the University of British Columbia.

Margaret Jane Wyszomirski is professor of public policy and director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at Ohio State University.

REVIEWS

“This collection of eighteen essays by scholars and practitioners examines the problems faced by executive leaders in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book provides a wealth of information-some new and some reformulated-and informed perspectives on the nature, challenges, and prospects of executive leadership in the major English-speaking countries.”
—Policy Currents

“The comparative analyses provided . . . is a useful reminder of differences in executive leadership that characterize even systems that on the surface would appear to be quite similar.”
—American Political Science Review

“The collection brings together a set of first-class papers in the area of leadership studies. . . . All the papers are of uniformly high standard and together make for a highly readable, methodologically sound and useful collection.”
—Canadian Journal of Political Science

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I - Executive Leadership: Why the Sense of Malaise?

2. The Leadership Question: is There an Answer | Bert A. Rockman

3. Executive Leadership in an Age of Overload and Retrenchment | B. Guy Peters

4. The Discontinuous Institutional Presidency | Margaret Jane Wyszomirski

Part II - Cabinet Government: A Clean Bill of Health?

5. Presidentialization in a Parliamentary System | George W. Jones

6. Cabinet Gevernment in Canada: Corporate Management of a Confederal Executive | Peter Aucion

7. A View from the Cabinet in Canada | Thomas Hockin

Part III - Advice to Presidents and Prime Ministers on Domestic and Economic Policy

8. The Council of Economic Advisers | Roger B. Porter

9,. OMB: Professionalism, Politicization, and the Presidency | James P. Pfiffner

10. Providing Countervailing Analysis and Advice in a Career-Dominated Bureaucratic System: The British Experience, 1916-1988 | William Plowden

11. Executive Office Agencies and Advisory Policy Units | Stuart E. Eizenstat

Part IV - Advice to Presidents and Prime Ministers on Foreign and Defense Policy

12. The National Security Adviser: A Presidential Perspecive | Kevin V. Mulcahy & Harold F. Kendrick

13. National Security Affairs: A Defense Department Perspective | Lawrence J. Korb

14. The Whitehall Model: Career Staff Support for Cabinet in Foreign Affairs | Peter Hennessy

Part V - Personal Staff for Presidents and Prime Ministers

15. White House Staffing: Salvation, Damnation, and Uncertainty | Joseph A. Pika

16. New and Old Lessons on White House Management | Samue Kernell

17. Support for Prime Ministers: A Comparative Perspective | Patrick Weller

18. The Role of Press Secretaries on Chief Executive Staffs in Anglo-American Systems | Colin Seymour-ure

Notes on Contributors

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