Full Description
Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces of activity. Drawing on the unique Ministers Reflect archive of the Institute for Government, which is an open and growing resource of over 140 ministerial interviews at UK and devolved government levels, as well as other ministerial reflections, the book addresses the literature on ministerial life and political leadership, and develops new concepts for examining ministerial leadership in different spheres. It argues that the relationship between ministers and civil servants has changed significantly in recent decades, as ministers place greater emphasis on delivery and implementation. The book adopts a theoretically pluralist approach with the intention of offering a valuable teaching aid for existing and new courses. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance.
Contents
Part I: Theorizing Ministerial Leadership.- Chapter 1. Introduction - why a book on ministerial leadership?.- Chapter 2. Ministering - ministerial leadership in practice.- Chapter 3. The Ministerial Role - activism and agency.- Part II: The Ministerial Identity and Mindset.- Chapter 4. Becoming a Minister.- Chapter 5. Shaping the ministerial mindset.-Chapter 6. Time Control.- Part III: Performing Ministerial Leadership.- Chapter 7. Leading the Department.- Chapter 8. The orchestrated collective leadership of government.- Chapter 9. Ministers Decide?.- Chapter 10. Gender and Ministering?.- Chapter.11. On the circuit: the system leadership of ministers.- Chapter 12. Ministerial Performance.- Chapter 13. The emergence of the delivery focused minister.- Part IV: After Ministerial Leadership.- Chapter 14. Losing Ministerial Office - Political Natality, Political Mortality and the ministerial life-cycle.- Chapter 15. The political is also personal.- Chapter 16. Conclusion - Learningabout Ministerial Leadership.
