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Tony 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 Contents

1. 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.

The British Presidency

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    A Paperback by Frances Lesley Foley, Michael Foley

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/19/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719050169, 978-0719050169
      ISBN10: 0719050162

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tony 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 Contents

      1. 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.

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