This paper studies how mayors engage with citizens, public managers and politicians across the policy cycle specifically in four local governance processes: agenda setting, decision-making, services design delivery. Drawing from a survey of 1,067 Italian mayors, we identify clusters engagement: Centralized Leadership, Semi-Inclusive Conventional Leadership Multi-Actor Leadership. We find that s...

This study forms part of a participatory action research project, undertaken in four Spanish schools, analysing the planning and development educational practices that link each school with its territory through community participation processes. The article describes how leadership can help to develop processes order foster such practices. Multiple case methodology was used. Information gather...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

The Neolithic was marked by a transition from small and relatively egalitarian groups to much larger groups with increased stratification. But, the dynamics of this remain poorly understood. It is hard to see how despotism can arise without coercion, yet coercion could not easily have occurred in an egalitarian setting. Using a quantitative model of evolution in a patch-structured population, w...

There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving 'leadership'. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

This paper is based upon a research study conducted to determine the significance of managerial leadership practices in a corporation’s transformation during the period from 2004 to 2006. The study attempted to discover how business-IT fusion enhances organizational performance. The study answered two questions: how managerial leadership practices effectively advance businessIT fusion of an inc...