John Gaffney

Leadership and the Labour Party

Narrative and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

The relationships between narrative and leadership,between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucialto party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians andscholars. This study analyses the 'performance of leadership' in the UK LabourParty, and what this means for a new approach to understanding politics. Themain focus of this study is the five-year leadership of Ed Miliband, 2010-2015.The fortunes of the party and the party leadership can be apprehended as aseries of performed rhetorical events. A political leader's persona is aconstruction that performs - rather like an actor - in the political space. Theauthor identifies and analyses the architecture and the modalities ofleadership persona construction and performance in contemporary politics.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50497-5
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781137504975
• ISBN-10: 1137504978
• Artikelnr.: 44374443

Autorenporträt

John Gaffney is Professor of Politics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Listof Figures.- 1.Political Leadership, Rhetoric and Culture: Aristotle Good, MaxWeber Bad.- 2.Leadership Lessons from the Past.- 3.The Arc of Rhetoric and theLeader as Author.- 4.Rhetoric and Performance: Miliband's Finest Hour(sixty-four minutes and forty seven seconds, in fact).- 5.Narrative Collapseand the Teller Without a Tale.- 6.Conclusion: Narrative, Rhetoric and the'Personalized Political'