American Journal of Political Science, Aug 1, 1980
Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alik... more Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alike. However, most scholarly studies of elections have analyzed the process as a dependent variable. This paper takes up where these studies of leadership change have left off, by assessing the policy impact of leadership changeover in democratic polities. My guiding concern, then, is not "who rules," but whether who rules matters in terms of government policy. I assessed the impact of electoral succession by examining how changes in the top leadership of seven advanced industrial democracies affected their budgetary allocations from approximately 1950 to 1976. The guiding hypothesis was that elections do not disturb the essentially linear and incremental nature of budgetary change in democratic states. This hypothesis, however, was not upheld by the analysis; the impact of succession was strong and pervasive across time and across nations. Thus, succession was found to be an important political variable that operates as a mechanism of policy change in democratic states.
Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the S... more Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during the postwar era, with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union and the United States.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
I began my career comparing leader-ship succession in two very different parts of the world: the ... more I began my career comparing leader-ship succession in two very different parts of the world: the Soviet bloc countries, on the one hand, and the United States and Western Europe, on the other (Bunce 1981). What interested me at the time was how different approaches to managing leadership change – the clear con-trast, simply put, of elites choosing leaders and citizens electing them – affected both regime responsiveness to its citizenry and trends in public policy. What I discovered was that both approaches to leadership
Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alik... more Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alike. However, most scholarly studies of elections have analyzed the process as a dependent variable. This paper takes up where these studies of leadership change have left off, by assessing the policy impact of leadership changeover in democratic polities. My guiding concern, then, is not "who rules," but whether who rules matters in terms of government policy. I assessed the impact of electoral succession by examining how changes in the top leadership of seven advanced industrial democracies affected their budgetary allocations from approximately 1950 to 1976. The guiding hypothesis was that elections do not disturb the essentially linear and incremental nature of budgetary change in democratic states. This hypothesis, however, was not upheld by the analysis; the impact of succession was strong and pervasive across time and across nations. Thus, succession was found to be an important political variable that operates as a mechanism of policy change in democratic states.
American Journal of Political Science, Aug 1, 1980
Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alik... more Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alike. However, most scholarly studies of elections have analyzed the process as a dependent variable. This paper takes up where these studies of leadership change have left off, by assessing the policy impact of leadership changeover in democratic polities. My guiding concern, then, is not "who rules," but whether who rules matters in terms of government policy. I assessed the impact of electoral succession by examining how changes in the top leadership of seven advanced industrial democracies affected their budgetary allocations from approximately 1950 to 1976. The guiding hypothesis was that elections do not disturb the essentially linear and incremental nature of budgetary change in democratic states. This hypothesis, however, was not upheld by the analysis; the impact of succession was strong and pervasive across time and across nations. Thus, succession was found to be an important political variable that operates as a mechanism of policy change in democratic states.
Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the S... more Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during the postwar era, with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union and the United States.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
I began my career comparing leader-ship succession in two very different parts of the world: the ... more I began my career comparing leader-ship succession in two very different parts of the world: the Soviet bloc countries, on the one hand, and the United States and Western Europe, on the other (Bunce 1981). What interested me at the time was how different approaches to managing leadership change – the clear con-trast, simply put, of elites choosing leaders and citizens electing them – affected both regime responsiveness to its citizenry and trends in public policy. What I discovered was that both approaches to leadership
Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alik... more Leadership succession is a topic of immediate concern for political scientists and laypeople alike. However, most scholarly studies of elections have analyzed the process as a dependent variable. This paper takes up where these studies of leadership change have left off, by assessing the policy impact of leadership changeover in democratic polities. My guiding concern, then, is not "who rules," but whether who rules matters in terms of government policy. I assessed the impact of electoral succession by examining how changes in the top leadership of seven advanced industrial democracies affected their budgetary allocations from approximately 1950 to 1976. The guiding hypothesis was that elections do not disturb the essentially linear and incremental nature of budgetary change in democratic states. This hypothesis, however, was not upheld by the analysis; the impact of succession was strong and pervasive across time and across nations. Thus, succession was found to be an important political variable that operates as a mechanism of policy change in democratic states.
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