Complex Political Decision-Making: Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication

ISBN-13: 9781032097428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Peter Bursens; Christ'l de Landtsheer; Luc Braeckmans

Opis

This book addresses the impact of an increasingly complex environment on the legitimacy and transparency of polities, on the role of leadership and political personality, and on motivated images, rhetoric and communication. Examining how these issues interact at a macro and theoretical level, the types of problems decision-makers face and how th

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Introduction

Part I: Complex Decision Making and Legitamcy

1. Covert Integration of Core State Powers: Renegotiating Incomplete Contracts

2. Patterns of Covert Integration in EU Governance. Response to Adrienne Héritier

3. Collective Decision Making within the European Union’s Legislative Competences: A Need for Change?

4. Diversity and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: What Can We Learn from Other Federal Systems?

5. Controlling Covert Integration in EU Politics

Part II: Complex Decision Making and Leadership

6. Leaders under Stress: Does Cognitive Ability Affect Career Stability?

7. Is Complexity a Stable Personality Construct Component or Is It (Just) a Matter of Style and Propaganda? Response to Peter Suedfeld

8. Political Personality and Complex Decision Making: The Psychological Profile and Leadership Style of Angela Merkel, the World’s Most Powerful Woman

Part III: Complex Decision Making and Communication 

9. Collective Decision Making in Complex Matters: Decision-making Processes at an International Level

10. The Ukranian Crisis Revisited. Response to Richard Herrmann

11. Politics, It Has Never Been So Simple. Complex versus Simplistic Rhetoric and the Use of Hyperbole in Political Decision-making in the Netherlands

Conclusion: Complex Political Decision Making: Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication

O autorze

Peter Bursens is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He also teaches at the Antwerp Management School and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and holds a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam from the European Commission.

Christ'l De Landtsheer is Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has taught at numerous institutions across Europe, Russia, the United States and China. Her interests are in the psychology of politics and political personality, as well as political rhetoric and metaphor.

Luc Braeckmans is Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Chair of the Centre for Andragogy. He is also Director of Academic Affairs of the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium.

Barbara Segaert is Scientific Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium.