TY - JOUR
T1 - When power changes hands
T2 - The political psychology of leadership succession in democracies
AU - Bynander, Fredrik
AU - 'T Hart, Paul
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - Leadership succession in democratic governments and political parties is an ubiquitous but relatively understudied phenomen, where the political becomes intensely personal and vice versa. This article outlines the puzzles that leadership succession poses to political analysts, reviews the literature, and offers a conceptual framework deconstructing the process in terms of a flow from succession contexts and triggers via the role choices of key participants (incumbents and aspiring successors) through to the eventual succession outcomes. It concludes by presenting a series of testable hypotheses to describe and explain leadership successions.
AB - Leadership succession in democratic governments and political parties is an ubiquitous but relatively understudied phenomen, where the political becomes intensely personal and vice versa. This article outlines the puzzles that leadership succession poses to political analysts, reviews the literature, and offers a conceptual framework deconstructing the process in terms of a flow from succession contexts and triggers via the role choices of key participants (incumbents and aspiring successors) through to the eventual succession outcomes. It concludes by presenting a series of testable hypotheses to describe and explain leadership successions.
KW - Leadership succession
KW - Political leadership
KW - Political parties
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748493008&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00529.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00529.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0162-895X
VL - 27
SP - 707
EP - 730
JO - Political Psychology
JF - Political Psychology
IS - 5
ER -