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Complex Political Decision-Making: Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication book cover

1st Edition

Complex Political Decision-Making Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication

Edited By Peter Bursens, Christ'l De Landtsheer, Luc Braeckmans, Barbara Segaert Copyright 2017
236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with complex environments in which they need to take collective decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with different actors. The negotiation and decision-making processes raise issues of legitimacy, leadership and communication. Modern societal systems... Read more

Introduction

Peter Bursens, Christ’l De Landtsheer, Luc Braeckmans and Barbara Segaert

Part I: Complex Decision Making and Legitamcy

1. Covert Integration of Core State Powers: Renegotiating Incomplete Contracts

Adrienne Héritier

2. Patterns of Covert Integration in EU Governance. Response to Adrienne Héritier

Dirk De Bièvre and Peter Bursens

3. Collective Decision Making within the European Union’s Legislative Competences: A Need for Change?

Maaike Geuens

4. Diversity and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: What Can We Learn from Other Federal Systems?

Matthias Vileyn and Peter Bursens

5. Controlling Covert Integration in EU Politics

Johan Adriaensen and Evelyn Coremans

Part II: Complex Decision Making and Leadership

6. Leaders under Stress: Does Cognitive Ability Affect Career Stability?

Peter Suedfeld

7. Is Complexity a Stable Personality Construct Component or Is It (Just) a Matter of Style and Propaganda? Response to Peter Suedfeld

Christ’l De Landtsheer

8. Political Personality and Complex Decision Making: The Psychological Profile and Leadership Style of Angela Merkel, the World’s Most Powerful Woman

Jurriaan Middelhoff, Petronella Schijvenaars and Christ’l De Landtsheer

Part III: Complex Decision Making and Communication 

9. Collective Decision Making in Complex Matters: Decision-making Processes at an International Level

Richard Herrmann

10. The Ukranian Crisis Revisited. Response to Richard Herrmann

Tom Sauer

11. Politics, It Has Never Been So Simple. Complex versus Simplistic Rhetoric and the Use of Hyperbole in Political Decision-making in the Netherlands

Lieuwe Kalkhoven and Christ’l De Landtsheer

Complex Political Decision Making: Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication

Christ’l De Landtsheer and Peter Bursens

Biography

Peter Bursens is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He also teaches at the Antwerp Management School and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and holds a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam from the European Commission.



Christ'l De Landtsheer is Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has taught at numerous institutions across Europe, Russia, the United States and China. Her interests are in the psychology of politics and political personality, as well as political rhetoric and metaphor.



Luc Braeckmans is Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Chair of the Centre for Andragogy. He is also Director of Academic Affairs of the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium.





Barbara Segaert is Scientific Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium.

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