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Author: Mark Bennister, Ben Worthy, Paul ‘t Hart 

The Leadership Capital Index develops a conceptual framework of leadership capital and a diagnostic tool – the Leadership Capital Index (LCI) – to measure and evaluate the fluctuating nature of the leadership capital of leaders. Differing amounts of leadership capital, a combination of skills, relations and reputation, allow leaders to succeed or bring about their failure. This book brings together leading international scholars in the field to engage with the concept of ‘leadership capital’ and use and apply the LCI to a variety of comparative case studies. The book provides an important, timely, and innovative contribution to the now flourishing academic discipline of political leadership studies. The LCI offers a comprehensive yet parsimonious and easily applicable 10 point matrix to examine leadership authority over time and in different political contexts. In each case, leaders ‘spend’ and put their ‘stock’ of authority and support at risk. United States president Lyndon Johnson arm-twisting Congress to put into effect civil rights legislation; Tony Blair taking the United Kingdom into the invasion of Iraq; Angela Merkel committing Germany to a generous reception of refugees: all ‘spent capital’ to forge public policy they believed in. The volume examines how office-holders acquire, consolidate, risk, and lose such capital, and concentrates predominantly on elected ‘chief executives’ at the national level, including majoritarian and consensus systems, multiple and singular cases, and also examines some presidential and sub-national cases. The Leadership Capital Index is an exploratory volume, with chapters providing a series of plausibility probes to see how the LCI framework ‘performs’ as a descriptive and analytical tool.

The leadership capital index : a new perspective on political leadership 1st Table of contents:

1. Understanding Political Leadership: The Leadership Capital Approach
Bringing Leadership Back Into the Study of Politics and Governance
Conceptualizing Leadership Capital
Developing the LCI
Sources of Leadership Capital: Skills, Relations, and Reputation
Methodology
Assumptions and Conjectures
Focusing and Developing the LCI
The Leadership Capital Index: An Outline
Towards Comparative Capital Assessment
2. Turning Structural Weakness into Personal Strength: Angela Merkel and the Politics of Leadership Capital in Germany
The “Rock-Solid” Leader?
Immunity to Decay
Political Vision and Communicative Performance
Personal and Party Polling
Shaping Party and Parliamentary Policy
Keeping the Powder Dry
Conclusion
3. “No Loans for Ladies”: Julia Gillard and Capital Denied
Skills
Relations
Reputation
Rating Gillard: Contingencies, Timing, and Culture
4. From Triumph to Tragedy: The Leadership Paradox of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Presidential Succession: Getting the Cattle Out of the Swamp
Using the Leadership Capital Index (LCI): Lyndon Johnson (1964–68)
Conclusions: Leadership Capital and a Tragedy of Epic Intensity
5. A “Meteoric” Career in Hungarian Politics
The Rise and Fall of Ferenc Gyurcsány
Methodology: The Milestone Approach
Hungary’s Post-Communist Politics
Milestones in Gyurcsány’s Prime-Ministership
Ferenc Gyurcsány’s Leadership Capital Dynamics
Skills
Relations
Reputation
Conclusions
6. Jerry Brown and the Triumph of Leadership: Leadership Capital and the Financial Rescue of California
California’s Dysfunctional Political System_ Understanding Brown’s Challenge
Leadership Capital and Jerry Brown
(S1) Leadership Vision and Communicative Performance
(S2) Electoral Strength
(R1) Public Trust and Party Strength
(R2) Policy Influence and Legislative Effectiveness
The Analysis: Taming the Ungovernable State
Conclusions
7. Limits to Dominance? Comparing the Leadership Capital of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair
Mapping Leadership Capital
Similarities and Differences in Style
Policy Vision and Communicative Performance
Personal and Party Poll Rating
Longevity and Party Leadership
Trust
Challengers
Party and Parliamentary Effectiveness
The Limits of Dominance: A Comparative Assessment
8. (Mis)Managing Leadership Capital: Canadian Prime Ministers
A Study in Contrasts
Canada’s Powerful Prime-Ministership
Party Leadership
Parliamentary Relations
Two Different Trajectories: Martin and Harper
Paul Martin
Stephen Harper
Martin and Harper’s Leadership Capital
Vision and Communication
Polling and Approval Ratings
Policy and Parliament
Conclusion
9. Modern Prime-Ministerial Leadership in the Netherlands: Consensus or Confrontation?
Introduction
Leadership in a Consensus Democracy
Adapting the LCI
Results
10. Swedish Coalition Governments and the Quest for Re-election
Carl Bildt’s Leadership Capital (1991 to 1994)
Fredrik Reinfeldt’s Leadership Capital (2006 to 2010)
A Comparative Assessment
Leadership Capital in a Multiparty System_ Adjusting the LCI?
11. Leadership Capital in a Protracted Crisis: Spanish Prime Ministers Compared
Leadership Capital and Economic Crisis Management in Spain
Methodology
Crisis? What Crisis? Rodríguez Zapatero (March 2008–December 2011)
Applying the LCI
Zapatero’s Cascading Crisis
Crisis Management by Perseverance: Rajoy (December 2011–December 2015)
Applying the LCI
Economic Crisis Management: Rajoy’s Low Insulation
Conclusion: The Coevolution and Comparison of Leadership Capital and Economic Crisis Management
12. The Leadership Capital of Italian Presidents: The Politics of Constraint and Moral Suasion
How Can a Weak and Neutral Actor Build Leadership Capital?
The Never-Ending Italian Crisis and the Pivotal Role of the President
Adapting the LCI for Italian Presidents
Re-Tooling the LCI
Analysis: Skills, Relations, and Reputation of Italian Presidents
Presidential Skills: Vision, Visibility, Messages, and Careers
Presidential Relations: Elections, Trust, and Credibility
Presidential Reputation: Experience, Neutrality, and Policy Influence
Presidents’ Rising Leadership Capital
How Weak Presidents Acquire Leadership Capital
13. Measuring and Using Leadership Capital: Issues and Extension
Applying and Extending the LCI
The Leadership Capital Index: Quantifying, Measuring, and Timing
14. Leadership Capital: A Bourdieuian Reinterpretation
From Political Capital to Leadership Capital
Conceptual Underpinnings
15. Conclusions: LCI Revisited
LCI at Work: Strengths and Limitations
Design Variations
What Did We Learn?
Skills
Relations
Reputation
“Natural” Depletion?
Interpreting Leadership Capital Trajectories
LCI Futures

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