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Contemporary Public Leadership In China: A Research Review and Consideration
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-07)
Background
China’s economic and political importance has captured the world’s attention. China has become increasingly
integrated into the global economy. Between 2000 and 2003, it accounted for one-third of global
economic ...
Transformational Leadership And American Foreign Policy: A Preliminary Analysis
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-11)
Foreign policy is usually over-determined. The “national interest” often appears to be an immutable dictation of the international system and of domestic politics. As Henry Kissinger put it when he was Secretary of State, ...
Leader Authenticity Markers: Findings From A Study of African-American Leaders
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-06)
Authenticity has become a central concept in leadership studies, but the question
of how followers assess the authenticity of their political leaders has not been
addressed. With few exceptions, the literature on ...
What is Good Leadership?
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-07)
The moral triumphs and failures of leaders carry a greater weight and volume than those of nonleaders. In leadership we see morality and immorality magnified, which is why ethics is fundamental to our understanding of ...
One of Us: Social Identity, Group Belonging and Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-01)
The title of this paper suggests a paradox. Leaders are simultaneously separate from and the same as their followers. They have higher status, greater influence, and more power, and occupy a different role, but they are ...
An Examination Of Trust In Contemporary American Society
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-01)
It is hard to imagine a society functioning in the absence of trust. From the smallest incident—crossing
the street when the light is green—to the most consequential events—a government fulfilling its pledge
to pay Social ...
Beyond Katrina: Improving Disaster Response Capabilities
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-02)
As Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma successively lashed the Gulf Coast starting in late August 2005,
nature’s fury exposed serious weaknesses in the United States’s emergency response capabilities. These
problems were ...
The Iceberg and the Titanic: Electoral Defeat, Policy Moods, and Party Change
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003-01-01)
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory and Conservative defeat in the 2001 British general election. Here we pursue one of the most interesting explanations offered by a modified Downsian model of ...
Leading in Complex Political Environments: What We Are Learning from Superintendents of Education
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-03)
This working paper examines some of the key issues and challenges confronting some of the most significant actors in American political affairs—superintendents of education—and explores how they can drive meaningful ...
Rethinking Leadership, or Team LEaders Are Not Music Directors
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-08)
Let us begin with a thought experiment. Think for a moment about one of the finest groups you have every seen—one that accomplished its work superbly, that got better and better as a performing unit over time, and whose ...