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Political Leadership in Parliament: the Role of Select Committee Chairs in the UK House of Commons
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Abstract Concepts of political leadership have been applied sparingly to parliaments, and not at all to the study of House of Commons select committees in the UK Parliament, where analysis has largely focused on their institutional capacity to scrutinise government and hold it to account. Yet examining these... mehr
Concepts of political leadership have been applied sparingly to parliaments, and not at all to the study of House of Commons select committees in the UK Parliament, where analysis has largely focused on their institutional capacity to scrutinise government and hold it to account. Yet examining these committees through a political leadership lens illuminates the complex role of committee chairs, a role which was significantly reshaped in 2010 with a shift to election of chairs by the whole House. This article analyses select committee chairs through the lens of political leadership, and draws on a series of interviews with chairs in order to delineate the nature of the political leadership they perform. It argues that, as chairs are now increasingly important parliamentary and policy actors, our understanding of them is significantly advanced by conceptualising their role as one of parliamentary political leadership, and that this in turn enriches our analytical toolkit when it comes to the study of parliaments. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Parlament; parlamentarischer Ausschuss; politische Führung; politische Elite; Berufspolitiker; politische Kultur; agenda setting function; politische Agenda; Gesetzgebung; Legislative; politische Entscheidung; Organisationskultur; Großbritannien
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 115-126
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 4 (2016) 2
Heftthema
New Approaches to Political Leadership
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)