Governing By Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced SocietiesGoverning by Committee is the first book-length study to examine decision-making among political executives. It examines sixteen advanced Western and Communist states and shows that collegial and semi-collegial patterns are far more common than is generally assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Max Weber, Baylis contends that modern bureaucracy, with its growing role in policy-making and its intimate association with neocorporatist forms of interest group representation, offers a particularly congenial setting for collegial leadership. A timely study, Governing by Committee opens a new dimension in the comparative study of political executives. But it also complements and contributes to the existing literature on political leadership, decision-making, consociationalism, and neocorporatism. It belongs as well to the still relatively small number of works comparing the politics of advanced Western and Communist states. |
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Contents
The Problem of Collegial Leadership | 7 |
Collegial Leadership in the Swiss Political System | 25 |
Collegial and Monocratic Leadership in the British Executive | 47 |
Coalition Governments and Collegial Leadership | 63 |
Communist Collective Leadership | 93 |
Monocratic Leadership | 125 |
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| Title | Governing By Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies SUNY series in leadership studies SUNY series in leadership studies |
| Author | Thomas A. Baylis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0887069444, 9780887069444 |
| Length | 236 pages |
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