The Structure of Leadership: Presidents, Hierarchies, and Information Flow.
This article draws on various theories of organization and hierarchy to argue that presidential staff may be conceived as a necessary limiting structure on an otherwise chaotic informational environment. As such, the shape of that structure shapes the kind, caliber, and amount of information preside...
| Published in: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 333 - 361 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
June 2005
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