Editorial: New Approaches to Political Leadership

Bennister, Mark

doi:10.17645/pag.v4i2.683

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“…Profound societal, political and institutional changes driven by rapid technological and economic transformation are pushing scholars and practitioners of public administration to address new, complex, urgent and often wicked challenges (Head and Alford ). Public leadership has been advocated as a key element in addressing these challenges, potentially discerning, shaping, nurturing and facilitating public value (Pedersen and Hartley ; 't Hart ; Bennister ). Emerging ideas about ‘polycentric’, ‘pluricentric’ or decentred governance, based on interdependence, negotiation and trust, have been welcome approaches in the field (see Bevir ; Sørensen and Torfing ) and contribute to the sense that it is timely to be examining the concepts of public value and of leadership.…”

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Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link

Hartley

Sancino

Bennister

et al. 2019

Public Administration

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Both leadership and public value are increasingly seen as concepts highly relevant to public administration, not only because of complex societal challenges but also as ways to address pluralistic interests in society. This article explores in detail the varied conceptualizations of public value and of public leadership. Furthermore, we argue that political astuteness provides an important conceptual linkage between leadership and public value, enabling actors to read, understand and foster coalitions around diverse and sometimes competing interests. In this introduction to the symposium, we analyse the different conceptualizations of public value, of leadership, and also show how the six articles explicitly or implicitly draw on the linking concept of political astuteness. The article assesses how the six articles of the symposium contribute to each of these three concepts.

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Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link

Hartley

Sancino

Bennister

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Public Administration

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“…While the constituent elements of good public leadership remain contested, there seems to be a broad consensus that the specific circumstances of different contexts are crucial (’t Hart , p. 16; Bennister , p. 1). Thus, public leadership is embedded within the classic dynamics of structure vs. agency and the challenges of creating effective change (’t Hart p. 16).…”

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“…Thus, public leadership is embedded within the classic dynamics of structure vs. agency and the challenges of creating effective change (’t Hart p. 16). Indeed, Bennister (, p. 2) poses the fundamental question of whether leaders can ‘overcome organizational and situational constraints to influence outcomes’. In their studies of collaborative public management, O'Leary and Bingham (, pp.…”

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Navigating tensions in co‐production: A missing link in leadership for public value

Brown

Head

2018

Public Administration

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New forms of public leadership are needed to design and implement co‐production of public value. We draw on narrative analysis to explore the barriers to developing the capacity for co‐production of public value in disadvantaged and vulnerable Indigenous communities and find that existing norms not only crowd out efforts at reform, but can work against them. In particular, we find that upward accountability and a focus on expert knowledge are the most problematic for co‐production of public value. We focus on how more traditional practices of public administration mediated the achievements of public leaders in their co‐production efforts when Australian governments introduced strategies for partnership with Indigenous communities for services design and delivery. The analysis suggests that creating a broader enabling environment of supportive logics would allow public leaders to engage more productively with inherent tensions between old and new ways of working.

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“…These scholars emphasize the importance of leaders' background, motivations and behaviour, advocating a person-centric understanding of political leadership ('t Hart & Rhodes, 2014). Despite its unceasing popularity, this approach has been criticized for its inadequacy to account for the causal capacity of the complex institutional and societal context in which political leaders operate (Bennister, 2016;'t Hart & Rhodes, 2014). As a result, it has lost its dominance in leadership studies to the interactionist approach, which embeds an agent-structure way of thinking and promotes the understanding of political leadership as the 'product of the interaction between the leader and the environment within which the leader is operating' (Bennister, 2016, p. 1).…”

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The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece

Sabchev

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article focuses on the role of local political leadership in municipal policy responses to the arrival of forced migrants. Initially, I bring together insights from research on leadership, migration and crisis management to develop a conceptual framework for studying local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants. To this end, I adopt an interactionist perspective and define local political leadership as the product of the interaction between mayors and their leadership environment (institutional and societal context). Subsequently, I apply this conceptual framework to a qualitative comparative case study, using data from desk research and fieldwork in two Greek municipalities. The findings indicate that differences in local political leadership can lead to the development of very different municipal policy responses in the field of forced migrants' reception. In particular, I argue that by exercising interactive and multilevel political leadership, mayors can increase their chances of advancing strategic policy objectives in migration governance, and by extension, strengthen the protection and fulfilment of migrants' fundamental rights. Finally, in the light of the conceptual and empirical insights arising from this research, I emphasize the need to improve the dialogue between leadership and migration scholars, and suggest questions for future research.

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Editorial: New Approaches to Political Leadership

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link

Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link

Navigating tensions in co‐production: A missing link in leadership for public value

The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece

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