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    Abelson, R. P.73, 85
    Ackerman, B. A.44
    al-Assad, H.728
    Alemeida, P.663
    Al-Qaddafi, M.696
    al-Wahhab, A.719
    Arnold, P.29
    Arthur, W.30
    Asseburg, M.729
    Augustus28
    Banducci, S.666
    Barberà, O.246
    Bauman, Z.29
    Bearfield, D. A.510
    Bélanger, É.643
    Bendix, R.33
    Berganza, R.605
    Bernard, H. R.126
    Bernecker, W. L.14, 18
    Berry, J. M.351
    Bértoa, F. C.355
    Bhumibol, king of Thailand14
    Bolsonaro, J.5
    Bonaparte, N.28
    Bondfield, M.255
    Borrelli, S.644
    Bradstock, A.185
    Brady, H. E.624
    Bramlett, B. H.639
    Braudel, F.33
    Brnacík, A.131
    Brown, M. E.293
    Browning, R. P.69, 85
    Bruck, H. W.85
    Brule, D. J.645
    Brulle, R. J.164
    Brusis, M.18
    Brødsgaard, K. E.751
    Bynander, F.87
    Caldeira, B.587
    Caldeira, G.585
    Cardenas, L.743
    Cardoso, F. H.379
    Carlotti, B.457
    Carstensen, M. B.46, 61
    Carver, K. A.146
    Cavarozzi, M.226
    Chaichalearmmongkol, N.767, 774
    Chalmers, A. W.620
    Che-Hua Yu, E.228
    Chollet, D. H.67, 85
    Christansen, T.689
    Christiansen, F. J.639
    Chubb, J. E.519
    Cigler, A. J.624
    Clegg, S. R.61
    Colbert, A. E.500
    Coleman, J. S.453
    Coleman, K. M.640
    Collier, R. B.30, 41
    Collings, D.128
    Conceicao-Heldt, E.84, 85
    Connolly, S.691
    Conway, L. G. III71, 85
    Corcaci, A.61
    Courtright, S. H.500
    Dahlmann, C. M.543
    Dăncilă, V.131
    Davidson-Schmich, L. K.261, 270
    De Alencar, H.766
    De Gaulle, C.367
    De Tocqueville, A.28, 33
    De Dreu, C. K. W.79, 86
    Denemark, R. A.89
    DeWalt, B. R.126
    DeWalt, K. M.112
    DiMaggio, P. J.46, 61
    Dimitrakopoulos, D. G.692
    Dirilen-Gumus, O.75, 86
    Dolan, Jr, T. M.75, 86
    Dönmez, P. E.620
    Dorussen, H.643
    Doser, W. J.61
    Dowling, C. M.290
    Dryzek, J. S.149
    Duelfer, C. A.75, 86
    Durnová, A.164
    Eberlein, B.663
    Eckhard, C.61
    Eisend, M.43
    Evans-Pritchard, E. E.111, 126
    Faletti, T. G.62
    Faschingbauer, T. R.292
    Feaver, P. D.641
    Finifter, A. W.18
    Fraussen, B.621
    Fridolin, G.330
    Fujimori, A.135
    Fukuyama, F.33
    Fulbright, W. J.293
    Gagnon, A. G.453
    Galeotti, A.455
    Garcia, F. L.436
    Gélineau, F.643
    Gerschewski, J.773
    Ghandi, J.92
    Ghiglino, C.455
    Ginsberg, W. R.625
    Gleditsch, K.455
    Goodin, R. E.354
    Goodman, S.8, 19
    Goodwin, D. K.27, 42
    Gornick, L. J.85
    Gornitzka, A.50
    Gregorius VII, Catholic Pope3
    Groeneveld, S.64
    Grote, G.33
    Hamblin, R. L.773
    Hammerschmid, G.542
    Harnisch, S.732
    Hatemi, P. K.88
    Hatfield, M.289
    Haugaard, M.61
    Hegel, G. W. F.546
    Henig, J. R.622
    Henry IV, king of England3
    Herodotus25
    Herron, E. S.226
    Heyen, E. V.520
    Hockin, T. A.381
    Hoffman, A. J.47, 65
    Hojnacki, M.351
    Hollenbach, F. M.333
    Hollingworth, P. J.180
    Houck, S. C.85
    Hudson, M. C.730
    Hymes, D. H.127
    Hyunjung Mo, C.665
    Isaksson, G.-E.379
    Jäckel, E.18
    Jakobsdóttir, K.131
    James, T. S.663
    Jeffreys, E.206
    Jemin, J.66
    Jenkins, J. A.665
    Jintao, H.66
    Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C.265, 270
    Johanssen, K.406
    Johnson, D. D. P.75, 87
    Johnson, N. J.146
    Jones, P. E.624
    Juncker, J.-C.693
    Katzenstein, P. J.57, 63
    Katznelson, I.32, 43
    Khaldun, I.28
    Kimball, D. C.351
    Kingdon, J. W.32, 43
    Kissinger, H.293
    Knill, C.61
    Kollontai, A.255
    Kornberg, A.640
    Kriesberg, L.87
    Kuczynski, P. P.341
    Kudamatsu, M.751
    Kuhonta, E. M.754
    Kumarasingham, H.40, 43
    Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, S.131
    Laumann, E. O.622
    Lauth, H. J.750
    Lawrence, P. R.68, 88
    Leary, B. O.379
    Lenore, G. M.731
    Leoniv, K.33
    Lerner, M.85
    Leuchtenburg, W.35, 43
    Lewinsky, M.173
    Leyden, K. M.644
    Lieberman, R.5, 20
    Lindstädt, R.584
    Lipset, S.33
    Lloyd George, D.359
    Löffler, L.542
    Louis IV, king of France717
    Lowe, W.64
    MacArthur, D.70
    MacGregor, J.600
    Mackenzie, G. C.518
    Macpherson, C. B.184
    Magone, J. M.19
    Mahler, J. L.125
    Mandelson, P.124
    Margalit, Y.664
    Margrethe II, queen of Denmark131
    Markievicz, C.255
    Marlin-Romeo, L.131
    Marquez, L. M. M.620
    Marschak, J.293
    Marsh, K.88
    Martinez Kuhonta, E.754
    Masciulli, J.381
    Mathiasen, A.543
    Mayhew, D. R.195
    Mazmanian, D.584
    McCarthy, J. D.710
    McClelland, D. C.75, 88
    McCullough, D.70, 88
    McDonald, M.478
    McGuire, C. B.293
    Meier, H. E.332
    Mettler, S.20
    Midlarsky, M. I.642
    Mikkelsen, K. S.64
    Miller, J. L.773
    Milward, A. S.5, 20
    Minzner, C.7, 20
    Mnangagwa, E.755
    Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince728
    Molchanov, M. A.381
    Möller, H.18
    Mommsen, T.33
    Montalvo, J. G.246
    Moore, B.33
    Morozumi, A.645
    Morth, U.87
    Mottley, M. A.131
    Mulgan, A. G.8, 21
    Mullan, A. K.625
    Munk Christiansen, P.545
    Muñoz-Pogossian, B.226
    Murphy, S. E.183
    Musharraf, P.763
    Nachmias, D.453
    Napolitano, G.14
    Nelson, B. J.146
    Nelson, R. L.622
    Nieto, P.83
    Norval, A. J.165
    Orbán, V.5
    Orlowski, M.333
    O’Loughlin, P. L.146
    Pandey, S. K.499
    Papadopoulos, Y.690
    Papathanassopoulos, S.605
    Park Chung Hee767
    Park Guen-hye142
    Parker, C.87
    Pavela Banai, I.663
    Pekkanen, R. J.226
    Pelgrims, C.517
    Pena Nieto, E.83
    Peréz-Liñán, A.435
    Perón, J. P.762
    Petermann, A.43
    Peters, D.6, 21
    Peters, R. A.7, 21
    Petersen, N. B. G.543
    Peterson, B. D.665
    Peterson, J.691
    Peterson, P. E.519
    Petracca, M. P.623
    Petruzzelli, J. D.625
    Phillips, J.184
    Piedrafita, S.689
    Platow, M. J.86
    Plattner, M. F.564
    Plutarch25
    Pongsudhirak, T.14, 21
    Proksch, S.-O.563
    Raaphorst, N.64
    Reddaway, P.750
    Reicher, S. D.86
    Reinemann, C.603
    Richards, D.457
    Rieskamp, J.290
    Riggs, F. W.458
    Rios-Figueroa, R.584
    Roberst, M.63
    Roberts, K. M.20
    Robertson, D.479
    Rodríguez Teruel, J.246
    Rokkan, S.33
    Rousseau, J.-J.721
    Rueschemeyer, D.42, 43
    Ruiz-Rufino, R.730
    Rumsey, M. G.669
    Sabatier, P.584
    Salamon, L. M.626
    Salheiser, A.459
    Sapin, B.85
    Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K.662
    Scammell, M.602
    Schaffer, B.533
    Schattschneider, E. E.609, 624
    Schlesinger, A., Jr36, 44
    Schmidt, H.27
    Schmidt, N.21
    Schneider, B. R.354
    Schneider, V.663
    Seabrooke, L.166
    Settembri, P. P.689
    Seybert, L. A.57, 63
    Sheingate, A.62
    Shorrocks, R.773
    Shvestova, O.584
    Sirleaf, E. J.268
    Skaaning, S.-E.227
    Smith, M. J.458
    Smith, W. C.225
    Snyder, J. L.773
    Snyder, J. M.332
    Spengler, O.33
    Squintani, F.455
    Standring, A.620
    Stavrakakis, Y.165
    Stein, J.86
    Straßheim, H.62
    Strauch, R. R.52, 62
    Strauss, A. B.332
    Suetonius27
    Svensson, T.623
    Tanács-Mandák, F.354
    Tanenbaum, E.333
    Terbovic, N.500
    Thaksin Shinawatra767
    Thierry, A.33
    Tinkler, J.61
    Torgerson, D.164
    Toynbee, A.33
    Tronconi, F.354
    Trumbore, P. F.81, 90
    Turnbull, N.163
    Ulrich, T.62
    Urgell, Bishop of716
    Vairo, D.21
    Valelly, R.20
    Valent, L. O.89
    Valenty, L.90
    Van Biezen, I.478
    Van der Eijk, C.645
    Van Dijk, E.313
    Van Doorn, J.774
    Van Kleef, G. A.313
    Van Rompuy, H.690
    Van Thiel, S.546
    Vandenberg, A.289
    Vanhoonacker, S.31, 41
    Vasilatos, N.641
    Venturino, F.227
    Vestlund, N. M.690
    Vigorito, A.643
    Von Ranke, L.35
    Wagner, W.6, 21
    Wallenstein, I.33
    Washington, G.43
    Wayland, C. B.126
    Westerland, C.584
    Weymouth, S.712
    Wilson, J. Q.546
    Wittkopf, E. R.89
    Wittman, D. A.544
    Wolbrecht, C.584
    Wriggins, W. H.69, 90
    Wright, B. E.499
    Wyszomirski, M. J.380
    Yarhi-Milo, K.75, 90
    Yasseri, T.63
    Yesilkagit, K.55, 64
    Yläoutinen, S.53, 62
    Yongnian, Z.751
    Yoshinaka, A.643
    Zakaria, F.5, 22
    Zhongjing, L.33
    Zohlnhöfer, R.380
    Zovatto, D. G.401

Note: Tables and figures, are indicated by an italic “t” and “f” respectively, following the page number.

    abduction, logic of112
    absolute monarchy717
    access-to-power701
    activenegatives/positives487
    administration of core executives, concept of49
    administrative checks and balances, theory of512
    administrative sciences678
    advisory structures80
    affectbased needs of society489
    affectoriented leaders489
    Afghan conflict74
    Agence France-Presse194
    agency-based explanations of regime stability702–4
    ally principle103
    altruistic voters635
    American Political Development (APD)30
    American Political Science Association (APSA)11, 461
    anacyclosis theory28
    answerability512
    anti-corruption266
    anti-democracy5
    anti-elite sentiment40
    anti-establishment212
    anti-federalism27
    anti-naturalism112
    apparatchiks706
    Arab principles of shura and ijma717
    Arabocentricism718
    armed-scapegoating285
    ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)715
    Athenian politics179
    Atlas.ti71
    authoritarian, definition of715
    background factors78
    balkanization496
    bargaining-theoretic approach303
    Bayesian information processing73, 85, 94
    BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)728, 729
    Berufspolitiker234
    Biafran War (1966–70)757
    bi-directionality346
    Binnenlandse Veiligheidstdienst (Dutch Intelligence Service)114
    binomial model200
    biographic method339
    Birth of Leviathan30, 42
    bivariate correlation199
    bureaucratic autonomy, principle of542
    bureaux chiefs116
    cabinet confidentiality, principle of190
    capricious power, principle of719
    catch-all parties238
    Central-Eastern European democracy452
    change, concept of152
    choreography199
    Christian Social Union (CSU)655
    Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)615
    class-based analysis154
    classical perspectives on ethics See ethics
    coalition negotiation, process of297
    coalitional politics, concept of425
    coalition-building417
    coalitions, theory of political92
    co-decision-making614
    cognitive mapping theory75
    cognitive theory276
    collective decision-making, principles of748
    collective government, principle of441
    collective ministerial responsibility, principle of447
    colonization596
    Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)678
    communication strategies598
    Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)701, 733, 750, 751
    competitiveness574
    complex specificness120
    compliancebased management style490
    compound executive order, concept of678
    compulsive personality70
    computer-assisted content analysis71
    confessional talks195
    conflict of interest principle348
    connectedness of institutions47, 54, 296
    conscientiousness275
    consequentiality, logic of50, 55, 60
    conservatism639
    Conservatives669
    constituents, effects of82
    constitutional conventions96
    constitutional executives, definition of14
    constitutional principles170, 440
    constitutional theory721
    contextualism508
    contingency theory of leadership69
    co-partisans423
    court politics
    court-curbing571
    cycles concept28
    decisiveness252
    departmentalism409
    departmentalization447
    descriptive-substantive interpretation260, 261
    development-oriented organizations83
    disenchantment224
    disengagement496
    disproportionality431
    distributivist approach427
    divide-et-impera policies726
    divine right, Medieval principle of rule by719–20
    doomsday scenarios722
    doppelganger effect77
    draconian instruments430
    dramatization592
    dual-principal situations104
    ecclesiastic powers3
    ECOFIN-Council680
    econometric solutions309
    economic and monetary union (EMU)678
    economic hardship285
    economic interdependence482, 485
    elite-endorsed candidates214
    elite-led reform committees723
    elite-oriented political sociology188
    elites, self-acknowledgement by161–2
    emergency, state of56, 766
    Emirate monarchs718
    English-language scholarship187
    entrepreneurialism679
    essays, terminology182
    estrangement531
    EUPOL (European Union Policy-Making)451
    evangelistic leadership style494
    event-history-analysis527
    eventmaking leaders483
    evidence-based conceptions of public policy158
    ‘executive, the’, definition of91–2
    executive privilege, principle of190–1
    executive strength, concept of387
    executive-administrative spaces47, 735
    executive-level positions256, 699
    executive-sponsored bills424
    ex-military professionals611
    ex-office holders339
    expansionary fiscal policy627
    extended-beta binomial model200
    externalization of decision-making448
    extra-European parliamentarism452, 718
    faithful performance of tasks, principle of351
    faithfulness211
    Falkland Islands637
    fast-track provisions426
    federalization470
    female-led states/parties262
    feminization254
    fieldbook notebook, definition of113
    followers, definition of183
    freedoms, fundamental608
    freewheeling independents217
    frontrunners4
    fusion-of-powers648
    gaming of target regimes533
    generational effect287
    gerrymandering566
    goal-oriented behaviour424
    going public, concept of158, 598
    good government, definition of403
    goodness175, 181
      self-interested concept of181
    governability425
    governance, definition of12
    governorships222
    grant-making612
    Gulf monarchies723
    gynocentric policy261
    heavy-handed tactics280
    heirs apparent657
    Hero-Worship497
    Hidden-Hand Presidency27, 42
    historical approaches25–44
      evolution of political executives2–8
      future research agenda38–40
        idiosyncrasy39
        reconciling with political history38–9
      prevailing approaches30–8
        historical institutionalism30–2
        political history and historical patterns35–38
      using history to understand the executive26–30
        descriptive political history
        hermeneutics26
        historical institutionalism26
        historical patterns26
        political history26
        prescriptive political history26
    hit-and-run fieldwork, definition of122 See also bricolage
    hobby politicians234
    household income162
    hybrid media system, concept of600
    hyper-accountability644
    hyper-masculinity149
    hyper-politicization534
    hyper-politics352
    hyper-presidency5
    ideal-typical presidential system362
    ideational-discursive NI46
    identities, citizen constructions of162–3
    identity-based constructs286, 287
    illegitimacy758
    illness of prime ministers302
    immunity from prosecution768
    impartiality536
    impoverished management488
    impressionism125
    improvization429
    inauguration630
    inclusiveness221
    independent agencies, performance of681
    indoctrination762
    information
      transmission105
    infotainment594
    insider-outsiders218
    inter-agency groups79
    inter-coder reliability score417
    interconnectedness54
    interdisciplinary perspective569
    interest-centred perspectives54
    interests, citizen constructions of162–3
    inter-executive relationships50
    International Political Science Association (IPSA)11
    international relations (IR) theory151–2
    interregional comparative studies727
    intra-cabinet principal-agent relationships453
    intra-coalition
      monitoring mechanisms467
      polarization448
    intra-institutional perspective47, 737
    intra-organizational perspective47
    intuitiveness273
    Iranian hostage crisis77
    Islamic Revolutionary Guards770
    Islamic-Arabic culture719
    item response theory398
    item-veto99
    Janus-like institutions676
    judicial discretion interval, illustration of571f
    judicial role-orientations569
    judicial-executive relations567
    justice and home affairs (JHA)678
    Keynesian economics40
    khadim al-haramain719
    Kremlinologists750
    last-born children487
    Latin-American style cabinets648
    leader-member relations490
    ‘leaders’, definition of183
    Least Preferred CoWorker (LPC)489
    legislative and non-legislative power, concept of394
    Leninist party-based dictatorships735, 736, 744
    liabilities of politics597
    liberal intergovernmentalism676–7
    local-level officials263
    lossaverse voters632
    lowest common denominator solutions494
    lucrative business opportunities703, 767
    luxury agendas635
    Madisonian checks and balances3
    magistracy28
    Magna Carta3
    malnourishment144
    Marshall Islands131
    material self-interest, concept of153
    medicine, science of176
    medieval principle of ‘rule by divine right’719
    Melayu Islam Beraja (Malay Islamic Monarchy)720
    merit-based criteria527
    meso-government346
    metacommunication598
    metacoverage598
    micromanagement512
    micro-monarchies723
    micro-perceptions639
    Middle East
      non-dynastic monarchies723
    ‘middle-of-the-road’ managers489
    ministerial responsibility
      Westminster concept of512
    misbehaviour516
    mixed-member proportional voting system507
    mixed-method research (MMR)205
    mixed-motives101
    moderate-opportunity presidents487
    monetarist turn (1980s)40
    moral theory171
    multi-directional pressure501
    multi-disciplinary research647
    multi-lateral negotiations6, 84, 634
    multi-member proportional representation system140
    multi-procedural institutions440
    multi-state primaries214
    mutatis mutandis447
    national executives, performance of681
    nationality51
    negative resource, concept of442
    neighbourhood crime652
    neo-patrimonialism423
    Neolithic revolution720
    network analysis of court politics123–4
    news management597
    news-media content592
    ‘night-watchman’ state5
    no-confidence vote308
    non-majoritarian institutions473
    non-personalist regimes707, 727
    non-politicization535
    non-profit organizations338
    normative theory475
    North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)6
    object-specific beliefs276, 281
    observation footage122
    open-democracy668
    open-party primaries212
    open-seat elections219
    Operation Rolling Thunder279
    operational code276
    oriental despotism719
    para-constitutional practices427
    parity/near-parity cabinets251
    party-machine system724
    ‘partyness’ of government463
    party-system fractionalization423
    patrimonial politics344
    permanent campaign, concept of599
    personability94
    personal economic conditions633
    personal responsibility177
    philanthropy181
    pillarization597
    pluralization379
    poliheuristic theory of decision-making284
    Politburo Standing Committee (PSC)735, 736, 739
    political advisers in the executive branch See advisers
    political equality, concept of609, 611
    political executives154–9
      terminology/definitions of1, 9, 14, 16
    politics-business nexus347
    politics-market linkages337
    pollution5
    post-classic study of politics8
    post-consociationalism656
    post-Linzian revolution433
    post-partycratic regime337
    post-presidential life339, 340
    post-prime ministerial career344
    post-structuralist discourse theory (PSDT)154
    PRC (People’s Republic of China)736 See also China
    pre-nomination season214
    presidential mandate347
    presidential power, concept of394
    Presidium of the Supreme Soviet-national legislature735, 744
    principum specula721
    process-managing policy508
    produce-or-perish management style489, 490
    professionalisation605
    prospect theory73
    protection racket system724
    public administration, concept of647
    qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)203
    quasi-experts747
    quasi-incumbency advantage653
    rally events630
    rational choice institutionalism677
    re-empowerment and rediscovery of political executives1–18
    regime cycles708
    regime institutionalization, definition of748
    regime stability
      agency-based explanations of702–4
      institutionalist explanations of705–6
    regime type (forma regiminis)716
    Renaissance era721
    reportage, journalistic123
    representative democracy, principles of351
    republicanization728
    research-based knowledge658
    resolutions, congressional469
    resources
      definition of446
      resource-oriented approach446
    Revolutionaries753
    revolving-door activities609
    rhetorical presidency, concept of33
    ruling coalition, concept of700, 708
    sabermetric analysis559
    ‘sacking’ a minister102
    securitization6
    self-awareness119
    self-censorship79
    self-presentation599
    semi-rentiers723
    semi-traditional authority722
    separation of powers principle2, 101, 648
    Sharifian descent719
    small-stateness724
    Social Democratic Party (SDP)655
    social constructivism46, 589
    social democracy232
    social scientific methods628
    social theory151
    sociocultural ministerial positions323
    sociopsychology629
    sociotropic nature of economic voting635, 642
    specialization342
    speechmaking332
    Spitzenkandidaten model6, 20, 689
    state form (forma imperii)716
    state-of-the-union format747
    state-society138
    stochastic process302
    strategic interaction, mapping of84
    strategyoriented approach598
    structurally induced equilibrium, concept of the298
    stubbornness70
    subcoalitions741
    subjectivity66
    subversive bureaucratic agents102
    Super Tuesday214
    supermajority298
    surrogate measure of leadership style76
    surveillance103
    system-level factors428
    targetization strategies602
    technocratization658
    time-related aspects657
    Titanic Tuesday214
    transportation287
    Treaty of Versailles280
    truth, construction of161
    use of force630
    value-neutrality181
    verbal-based content analysis288
    Verbs in Context System (VICS)282
    video recordings122
    ‘winner-take-all’ general election214, 555
    World War I, aftermath of274, 342
    yang di-pertuan agong716
    zeitgeist82
    zero intelligence model299, 311
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