Liberal Democrat Leadership: The Cases of Ashdown and Kennedy.
Effective leadership of the Liberal Democrats requires a combination of strengths: communications skills, a clear agenda, the ability to manage the party and personal abilities, including stamina, self-confidence and a love for the party itself. This article assesses Paddy Ashdown's and Charles Kenn...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 78 - 89 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=25353716&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 25353716 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00323179 PQT jtl: Political Quarterly issn: 00323179 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan-Mar2007 vid: 78 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 25353716 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2007.00833.x ppf: 78 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 158KB tig: atl: Liberal Democrat Leadership: The Cases of Ashdown and Kennedy. aug: au: BRACK, DUNCAN affil: Was the first Policy Director of the Liberal Democrats, currently chairs the party's Federal Conference Committee, was vice-chair of the ‘Meeting the Challenge’ policy review group in 2005–6 and is editor of the Journal of Liberal history. su: Political parties Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) Communication Leadership Management sug: subj: Political parties Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) Communication Leadership Management keyword: Charles Kennedy leadership Liberal Democrats Menzies Campbell ab: Effective leadership of the Liberal Democrats requires a combination of strengths: communications skills, a clear agenda, the ability to manage the party and personal abilities, including stamina, self-confidence and a love for the party itself. This article assesses Paddy Ashdown's and Charles Kennedy's periods as leader. It concludes that the first two phases of Ashdown's leadership were successful: he first ensured the party's survival and then positioned it so that it was able to benefit from the rise in support for the centre-left without being squeezed out by Labour. In the third phase, however, the attempt to deliver a common agenda with Labour was a failure, and Ashdown increasingly lost touch with his own party. Kennedy's first two years as leader were also relatively successful, but after that his leadership fell apart, suffering from a lack of an agenda, a failure of party management, a weakness in communication skills and a lack of self-confidence. His underlying problem was not alcoholism; it was that he was not capable of being an effective leader. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Political Quarterly is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Political Quarterly holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2007 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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