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Political centralization and policy constraint in British executive leadership: lessons from American presidential studies in the era of sofa politics
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Despite often superficial comparisons of British executive authority and American presidentialism over the past three decades, British politics has yet to develop anything approaching a sub-discipline of leadership or executive studies. Owing to the increased bifurcation of political and policy authority in Britain, whereby an increasing centralization-personalization of politics coexists with growing policy constraint, this paper argues that British politics could now benefit from incorporat...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Politics Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 372-394
- Publication date:
- 2007-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1746-9198
- ISSN:
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1746-918X
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- English
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- ora:3813
- Deposit date:
- 2010-05-26
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Bowles, N., King, D. S. & Ross, F. (2007). 'Political centralization and policy constraint in British executive leadership: lessons from American presidential studies in the era of sofa politics', British Politics 2(3), 372-394] is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/bp/journal/v2/n3/abs/4200073a.html
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