Comparative keyword analysis and leadership communication: Tony Blair - A study of rhetorical style

Charteris-Black, Jonathan

Abstract

What do we expect from our leaders, and how do we judge their performance? There can be no substantive assessment of leaders and leadership without comparing the fundamentally different contexts and settings in which leaders operate. At a time when international political research is rediscovering the importance of leadership, this volume marks the first major study specifically devoted to exploring all the fields of political leadership from a genuinely comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cast a new light on the changing features and trends in the classic areas of political leadership, such as executive and legislative leadership, and leadership in political parties. In addition, they explore many younger subfields of political leadership research, such as crisis leadership and leadership in social movements. These area-related analyses are complemented by more expansive assessments of leadership in old and new democracies, in non-democratic regimes, and in international organizations. The distinguished team of contributors is composed of leadership scholars from three continents and nine countries.

Citation

Charteris-Black, J. (2012). Comparative keyword analysis and leadership communication: Tony Blair - A study of rhetorical style. In L. Helms (Ed.), Comparative Political Leadership, 142-164. Palgrave Macmillan

• Publication Date: Jul 25, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 142-164
• Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
• Book Title: Comparative Political Leadership
• ISBN: 9780230296497
• Keywords: leaders, leadership, political leadership, communication, Tony Blair, rhetorical style