Political Leadership in Times of Crisis: Comparing Leader Responses to Financial Turbulence

Boin, Arjen; Hart, Paul ‘t; Esch, Femke van

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“…The onset of a crisis often is accompanied by vague, incremental and ambiguous signals, which makes diagnosing it a confusing, contested and time-pressured task (Boin et al 2005;Boin et al 2012;'t Hart and Tindall 2009;Hermann and Dayton 2009;Stern 1999). At the same time, sensemaking is one of the core tasks of leadership in crisis management: in order to proceed to the decision-making stage, leaders first need to recognise a crisis.…”

Section: Sense-making In the European Contextmentioning

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How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis: The Influence of Pressure and Personality

Esch¹,

Swinkels²

2015

West European Politics

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confidence: 99%

How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis: The Influence of Pressure and Personality

Esch¹,

Swinkels²

2015

West European Politics

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“…The fact that crises disrupt normal government routines makes it interesting to study political leadership in action because the course of the crises depends on behaviour of reformers (Boin et al., 2012). During the recent crisis, politicians have gained more power necessary to impose urgent cutbacks (Kickert et al., 2015), which could have been also exploited for enacting other policy reforms.…”

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Making change happen: Policy dynamics in the adoption of major reforms in Lithuania

Nakrošis

Vilpišauskas

Barcevičius

2018

Public Policy and Administration

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Previous studies of policy reforms that were undertaken during the recent global financial crisis mostly focused on fiscal consolidation, with much less attention paid to other structural reforms. Although the impact of such external shocks as crisis or change of government on systemic change is widely acknowledged, little agreement exists on which intervening factors can best account for successes or failures of reform commitments. In this article, we propose an innovative explanation that focuses on the variables of political attention and change leadership, and which analyses temporal political and policy dynamics of reform decision making. We conduct a comparative analysis of the four performance priorities of the 2008–2012 Lithuanian Government led by Prime Minister A. Kubilius. The article concludes that a combination of persistent high political attention to policy reforms and strong reform leadership aimed at mobilising coalition support are essential factors in fulfilling reform commitments.

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“…La rendición de cuentas se materializó más tarde en los desastrosos resultados electorales de su partido, que perdió 4 285 824 votos y 59 escaños. Puede decirse que Zapatero no ha sido capaz de cumplir las tareas de liderazgo en una crisis económica, aunque no haya sido el único líder europeo en esta circunstancia (Boin et al, 2005;Boin et al, 2012;Masters y 't Hart, 2012).…”

Section: La Gestión De La Crisis Económica De Zapatero 2008-2011: Elunclassified

Las trayectorias del capital de liderazgo de Rodríguez Zapatero, 2004-2011

Olmeda

2021

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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Siguiendo la conceptualización de capital político de Bennister, ‘t Hart y Worthy, y su definición del capital de liderazgo como autoridad agregada compuesta de tres dimensiones (habilidades, relaciones y reputación) de un líder, el artículo usa su índice de capital de liderazgo (LCI) para cartografiar sistemáticamente esas tres áreas generales, que combinan medidas concretas con aspectos interpretativos, en los mandatos de Rodríguez Zapatero como presidente del Gobierno. Este índice es más matizado y robusto que la dependencia exclusiva de las últimas puntuaciones de aprobación, y se utiliza como una herramienta para rastrear y comparar sistemáticamente la fortuna política de Zapatero en su gestión de las reformas de políticas públicas (2004-‍2008) y la crisis económica (2008-‍2011). El análisis muestra una trayectoria típica de líder meteórico, y que las pérdidas de capital de liderazgo se detectaron principalmente en sus habilidades persuasivas e inspiradoras, y sus relaciones políticas con su partido y la opinión pública.

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Political Leadership in Times of Crisis: Comparing Leader Responses to Financial Turbulence

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis: The Influence of Pressure and Personality

How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis: The Influence of Pressure and Personality

Making change happen: Policy dynamics in the adoption of major reforms in Lithuania

Las trayectorias del capital de liderazgo de Rodríguez Zapatero, 2004-2011

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