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Contingency and Political Action: the Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises
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Abstract Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreti... mehr
Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreting crises. Our claim is that there is a third analytical possibility mainly neglected in recent literature that is even more voluntaristic than the constructivist approaches. In this scenario, there is no external shock; leaders do not only interpret, but also "invent" crises. To make our claim plausible, we build a conceptual-descriptive typology of the potential relationships between crisis situations and agency. The typology is founded on Kari Palonen's differentiation between Machiavellian and Weberian types of contingency, but uses his originally conceptual historical argument for analytical purposes. To underpin our theoretical argument, we present short illustrative examples to all three types of crisis scenarios (the structuralist, the constructivist, and the voluntarist one). (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
politische Führung; politische Macht; politische Elite; Berufspolitiker; politische Krise; Krise; politische Agenda; Politikumsetzung; politische Kultur; Typologie; politische Theorie; Theorie; Persönlichkeit; Führungsstil
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 91-103
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 4 (2016) 2
Heftthema
New Approaches to Political Leadership
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)