Governing By Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced SocietiesState University of New York Press, 1989 M05 22 - 236 pages Governing 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. |
Contents
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Collegial Leadership in the Swiss Political System | 21 |
Collegial and Monocratic Leadership in the British Executive | 45 |
Coalition Governments and Collegial Leadership | 61 |
Communist Collective Leadership | 91 |
Monocratic Leadership | 123 |
Determinants and Consequences | 143 |
Notes | 165 |
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