Ruling Divisions: The Politics of Brexit

Haughton, Tim

doi:10.1017/s1537592721002267

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“…As party fragmentation increased, a ratifiable WA became costly to May’s government as parliament refused to ratify the WA she had negotiated. Once May stepped down as prime minister, Johnson became the leader and presented himself as the figure who would be able to get a better deal vis-à-vis the EU ( Haughton, 2021 ). Although the concluded WA was ultimately no different from the one negotiated by his predecessor, Johnson achieved what May could not: ratifying the deal in parliament.…”

Section: Political Background In the United Kingdommentioning

confidence: 99%

Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic

Thiers

Wehner

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article introduces an analytical framework to trace and compare leaders’ different types of behaviours to the health crisis posed by COVID-19, following the analytical benefits of Leadership Trait Analysis. It examines Boris Johnson’s and Nicola Sturgeon’s diverging initial responses to the pandemic’s onset. We employ the Leadership Trait Analysis to shed light on three main differences in their respective leadership styles: risk-proneness versus risk-aversion; flexibility versus rigidity and rule advocacy versus rule ambivalence. Crises are one of the more fruitful situations in which to study leaders as their personal characteristics become central to the decision-making process. Thus, we employ an agent-centred and political psychology approach to analyse leaders’ behaviour and make sense of their divergent management styles. The results show that the differences between these leaders’ approaches to handling this global health crisis can be partly explained by their level of openness to information and their task versus relationship focus.

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Section: Political Background In the United Kingdommentioning

confidence: 99%