The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives

• Introduction


• 1: Rudy Andeweg, Robert Elgie, Ludger Helms, Juliet Kaarbo, and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel: The Political Executive Returns: Re-Empowerment and Rediscovery


• I. Theorizing and Researching Political Executives


• 2: Matthew Laing and Brendan McCaffrie: Historical Approaches


• 3: Klaus H. Goetz: New Institutional Approaches to the Study of Political Executives


• 4: Margaret G. Hermann and Juliet Kaarbo: Psychology and the Study of Political Executives


• 5: Indridi H. Indridason and Christopher Kam: A Rational Choice Perspective on Political Executives


• 6: R.A.W. Rhodes and Jack Corbett: Ethnographic Approaches


• 7: Karen Beckwith: Feminist Approaches to the Study of Political Executives


• 8: Dennis C. Grube: Constructivist Approaches


• 9: John Uhr: Ethical Approaches


• 10: Robert Elgie: Methodology and the Study of the Political Executive


• II. Composition and Life Cycle of Political Executives


• 11: Magna Inácio and Mariana Llanos: Presidential Pathways and Profiles


• 12: Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Corinna Kröber, and Michelangelo Vercesi: Political Careers of Ministers and Prime Ministers


• 13: Diana Z. O'Brian and Catherine Reyes-Housholder: Women and the Executive Politics


• 14: Mark Schafer and Gary Smith: Personalities and Beliefs of Political Executives


• 15: Petra Schleiter: Government Formation and Termination


• 16: Hanna Bäck and Royes Carroll: The Distribution of Ministerial Posts in Parliamentary Systems


• 17: Fortunato Musella: Post-Executive Activities


• III. Dynamics and Developments Within Political Executives


• 18: Robert Elgie and Gianluca Passarelli: The Presidentialization of Political Executives

Rudy B. Andeweg is Professor of Political Science, Leiden University. His publications include Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis (edited with C. van Ham, J. Thomassen, and K Aarts, OUP, 2017), and Puzzles of Government Formation (edited with L. de Winter and P. Dumont, Routledge, 2011).

Robert Elgie was Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University. His publications include The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (edited with Alexander Baturo, OUP, 2019), and The Oxford Handbook of French Politics (edited with Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur, OUP, 2016).

Ludger Helms is Professor of Political Science, University of Innsbruck. His publications include Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chancellors (Palgrave, 2005) and Comparative Political Leadership (Palgrave, 2012).

Juliet Kaarbo is Professor of Foreign Policy, University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations (edited wtih Cristian Cantir, Routledge, 2016) and Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making (University of Michigan Press, 2012).

Ferdinand Müller-Rommel is Professor of Comparative Politics, Leuphana University Lüneburg. His publications include Party Politics and Democracy in Europe (edited with Fernando Casal Bértoa, Routledge, 2017), and Party Government in the New Europe (edited with Hans Keman, Routledge, 2014).

This is a useful and valuable reference work for the study of political science. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. General readers. S. E. Montgomery, CHOICE