A theory of decisive leadership

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Bodoh-Creed, Aaron

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2020.01.013

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“…Third, even if the degree of public trust in the health models is high, the effectiveness of government response to the pandemic depends on whether the political leaders are capable of making decisive decisions. In this regard, a theory of decisive leadership, developed by Bernheim and Bodoh-Creed (2020) , posits that agency problems between voters and politicians can translate into changes in preferences among voters for leaders who perceive high costs of delay and have little uncertainty about the decision problem. Guided by such preferences, voters will choose leaders who make decisions more expeditiously then typical voters, despite possessing no special skill at collecting and processing relevant information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Guided by such preferences, voters will choose leaders who make decisions more expeditiously then typical voters, despite possessing no special skill at collecting and processing relevant information. In the context of a public health emergency, the theory of political economy of Bernheim and Bodoh-Creed (2020) predicts that voters will abide by decisive and swift pandemic responses undertaken by political leaders. On the contrary, this theory implies that voters are less likely to follow relatively more hesitant, sloppy and indecisive health policies, which translated into a higher variability in the stringency index.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Variability and strictness in COVID-19 government response: A macro-regional assessment

Donadelli

Gufler

Kizys

et al. 2022

Journal of Government and Economics

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Variability and strictness in COVID-19 government response: A macro-regional assessment

Donadelli

Gufler

Kizys

et al. 2022

Journal of Government and Economics

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“…Therefore, this theory is broadly understood as the procedures necessary for directing human behavior in their day-to-day activities to protect others [28,29]. Douglas stressed the decisive approach that leaders must render decisions on behalf of the population, which must be quick, swift, healthy, and sure to better their daily lives [30]. The applicability of this theory has been seen as social-distancing.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on South Sudan: A Review on Social and Economic Management Policies from the First Wave

Daru

Rizwan

Xuelian

et al. 2022

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In December 2019, a new respiratory disease, i.e., novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in Mainland China in Wuhan the capital of Hubei Province. It spreads through droplets produced while coughing or sneezing. Its symptoms include fever, dry cough, fatigue, sputum production, shortness of breath, sore throat, etc. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a “Pandemic” which affected human lives and economies. South Sudan is a developing country and does not have adequate resources to overcome this pandemic (COVID-19). Aims: The primary objective of this article is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the youngest country in the African continent (South Sudan) on its weak economy coupled with hyperinflation and depreciation of currency etc. and lessons learned from other countries in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: A review was carried out to accomplish the objective of the study by extracting data from the database of Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Research Gate, and authentic websites for World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, etc., studies covered major areas across the globe but more especially countries that have trade ties with South Sudan and the East African Results: There is a drop in South Sudan’s crude oil export which is crucial for the economy. The responsive rate to vulnerable citizens was low, inadequate policies implementations, there was massive unemployment, it has created the state of xenophobia between nationals and foreigners, online learning through the use of televisions (TVs) and radio stations has not been effective. Conclusion: The management of the COVID-19 pandemic call for collaboration between authorities the public, and inter-states as there is no country immune. The use of e-commerce is crucial for developing countries, which reduces social interaction between traders and consumers, reducing the chances of a complete economic shutdown. Lastly, there is also a need to establish learning infrastructures for online studies and birth control initiatives, especially for the least developed countries.

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“…Lack of energy, motivation, and resolve in public office is generally associated with negative dispositions that deserve condemnation. Leaders who are seen as indecisive, “waffling,” “flip-flopping,” and too slow, tend to be construed as not suitable for office ( Bernheim & Bodoh-Creed, 2020 ). In a similar vein, complacency is regarded as a “vice” in policymaking ( Leong & Howlett, 2022 ).…”

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Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online

Hansson

Page

Fuoli

2022

Social Media + Society

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Modern politics is permeated by blame games—symbolic struggles over the blameworthiness or otherwise of various social actors. In this article, we develop a framework for identifying different strategies of blaming that protesters use on social media to criticize and delegitimize governments and political leaders. We draw on the systemic functional linguistic theory of Appraisal to distinguish between blame attributions based on negative judgments of the target’s (1) capacity, such as references to their incompetence and policy failures; (2) veracity, questioning their truthfulness or honesty via references to deceitful character or dishonest acts and utterances; (3) propriety, questioning their moral standing by references to, for instance, corruption; and (4) tenacity, suggesting that the politicians are not dependable due to, for example, dithering. We add to this a further threefold distinction based on whether blaming is focused on the target’s (1) bad character, (2) bad behavior, or (3) negative outcomes that the target either caused or did not prevent from happening. To illustrate the approach, we analyze a corpus of replies by Twitter users to tweets by British government ministers about two highly contentious issues, Covid-19 and Brexit, in 2020–2021. We suggest that the methodology outlined here could provide a useful avenue for systematically revealing and comparing a variety of realizations of blaming in large datasets of online conflict talk, thereby providing a more fine-grained understanding of the practices of protest and delegitimation in modern politics.

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A theory of decisive leadership

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Variability and strictness in COVID-19 government response: A macro-regional assessment

Variability and strictness in COVID-19 government response: A macro-regional assessment

Impact of COVID-19 on South Sudan: A Review on Social and Economic Management Policies from the First Wave

Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online

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