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Book SynopsisTony Blair's premiership has not only reaffirmed trends towards leader-centred parties and governments, it is a stage in the development of a genuine British presidency. The argument here is that the American presidency illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of an emergent British presidency.
Table of Contents1. Prime ministerial government and the presidential analogy.
2. Outsiders and spatial leadership in modern American politics.
3. Moving in from the outside: the Thatcher precedent.
4. Moving in from the outside: the Blair phenomenon.
5. Going public and getting personal in the United States.
6. Presidential outreach and the development of British political leadership.
7. Major, Blair and the struggle for Public Outreach.
8. Leadership stretch in Britain.
9. The presidency and the premiership: power, nation and constitution.
10. Tony Blair and the British Presidential Dimension.
