Description:
In twelve essays, influential scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership from the kaleidoscopic perspectives of the leaders, institutions, goals, procedures, problems, and traditions involved. The approaches, as varied as the subject itself, coalesce around the central question of how leaders interact with, transform, or are controlled by the organizations they lead.
Brief description:
Bryan D. Jones is head of the political science department at Texas A & M University. His books include Governing Buildings and Building Governments and The Sustaining Hand: Community Leadership and Corporate Power.
Review Quotes:
"Readers interested in urban and community power structures, presidential-legislative relations, interest-group process, conflict management, or more generalized public administration and management theory will find this work by Jones a genuine contribution to the literature that they will want to peruse carefully."--Perspectives on Political Science