This book provides an in-depth analysis of the `technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.

This book provides a philosophically informed, institutionalist account of political leadership. This book is aimed at scholars and students of political leadership, political institutions, the philosophy of the social sciences, and research methods.

This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of political leadership, Soviet politics and Soviet history.

The presidency of Donald J. Yet, even with his extraordinary personality and approach to the job, his presidency is proving quite ordinary in its accomplishments and outcomes, both at home and abroad. Ironically, it is precisely Trump's extraordinariness as president that has helped render his presidency ordinary.