Leadership Lessons: Minority Governments, Independents and Relationships

A Theory of Minority and Majority Governments

We develop a theory of the emergence of minority and majority governments in multiparty parliamentary systems using a canonical non-cooperative bargaining model and assuming a policy space of arbitrary finite dimension, any number of political parties, and a general class of preferences over the government agreement space. Only majority governments form in the absence of significant political d...

Challenges in Reducing Readmissions: Lessons from Leadership and Frontline Personnel at Eight Minority-Serving Hospitals.

BACKGROUND Hospitals that serve minority patients have higher readmission rates than other hospitals and, as a result, receive higher penalties under the federal government's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. A study was conducted to determine how minority-serving hospitals are responding to federal readmissions policy and whether they face specific challenges as they work to reduce read...

Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies

Lessons learned through leadership.

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Ethnic Minority Leadership: A Theoretical Perspective

Although numerous approaches have been utilized to study leadership (focusing on traits, attributes, styles, roles, situations, performance, results, and so on), there is no agreement on the idal approach. The debate over this issue especially as related to the study of ethnic minority leadership continues. In this paper two major approaches the "Great Main or Trait" and the "Times or Situation...