Overview
Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance. The purpose of the theoretical framework is to inspire and guide empirical research into how elected politicians perform political leadership in a society where citizens and other stakeholders play an active role in making and implementing political decisions and what barriers, challenges, and dilemmas they encounter in relation to the performance of interactive political leadership. The research framework draws extensively on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership and other new developments in political science and public administration research. Moreover, it finds inspiration in current tendencies and embryonic examples of interactive political leadership performed by elected politicians operating at different levels of governance in Western liberal democracies. The basic assumption is that political legitimacy is essential for the survival of a political system, and that interactive political leadership stands out as a promising way of securing what political scientists denote as input-, throughput-, output-, and outcome legitimacy in the age of governance. Hence, interactive political leadership aims to establish a bridge between representative democracy and emergent forms of political participation, to promote political learning and accountability, to strengthen the political entrepreneurship of elected politicians, and to advance the political system's implementation capacity through resource mobilization. The book develops 20 propositions that sets the agenda for a new and much needed field of empirical research into political leadership in the age of governance.
Full Product Details
Author: Eva Sørensen (Professor of Public Administration and Democracy, Professor of Public Administration and Democracy, Roskilde University, Denmark)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9780198777953
ISBN 10: 0198777957
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 30 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Interactive Political Leadership is an ambitious work that develops new concepts and theoretical arguments for redefining the study of contemporary political leadership in Western democracies. This makes Eva Sorensen's volume a praiseworthy intellectual effort, one that scholars of representative democratic governance should take seriously. * Michelangelo Vercesi, Perspectives on Politics *
Interactive Political Leadership is an ambitious work that develops new concepts and theoretical arguments for redefining the study of contemporary political leadership in Western democracies. This makes Eva S/orensen's volume a praiseworthy intellectual effort, one that scholars of representative democratic governance should take seriously. * Michelangelo Vercesi, Perspectives on Politics *
Author Information
Eva Sørensen is Professor of Public Administration and Democracy, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, and Professor II at Nord University in Norway. Her main research interest is transformations in democratic governance in Western liberal societies and the implications of these transformations for making legitimate and effective political decisions. In her many publications and externally funded research projects on these topics, she pays specific attention to new developments in the relationship and interplay between politicians, public administrators, and citizens.
