Titlebook: How Power Changes Hands; Transition and Succe Paul ’t Hart (Professor of Political Science and P Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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978-1-349-31814-8Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

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Power Transitions and Leadership Successions in Governmentir of hands replacing a former pair or indeed collection of hands, each set of hands able and willing to hold the reins of power, or in a more contemporary image, exercise the levers of power. In some eyes, the levers are almost neutral instruments of power which lend themselves equally to any set o

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Managers or Messiahs? Prime Ministerial Leadership and the Transition to Government When all significant executive positions fall to the winning party, as in the US, there must be more attention to the details of transition than is required for a change of government in a parliamentary system, where the permanent civil service assures some continuity. Thus, the literature on presi

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Establishing Prime Ministerial Leadership Style in Oppositione early months and years of new governments are often mistake-ridden and directionless. Some new prime ministers, like Britain’s Tony Blair, have little or no prior experience in executive government. Blair’s press secretary, Alastair Campbell, observed that Blair’s office had ‘hung on to some of th

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Bicameralism and the Dynamics of Contested Transitionses to government transition tend to deal with only one: transitions in and out of executive power. Transitions in general are about new concentrations of power but democratic institutional design gives priority to dispersed governmental powers (Kane et al., 2009). Democracies disperse governmental p

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Seeking and Keeping the Hot Seat: A Comparative Analysis of Party Leader Successionsa prime-ministership or a presidency are ‘hot seats’ in more than one sense. They are not just hot in terms of the potential for power and authority they bring to those that occupy them; they are also hot in terms of attracting competition and controversy. Leadership of a party is more often than no