Political Leadership And The European Commission Presidency

Download or read book The Presidency of the European Commission under Jacques Delors written by K. Endo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first systematic study of the presidency of the European Commission. Drawing upon cases of attempted leadership by Jacques Delors, the Commission President from 1985-95, it examines the leadership capacity of the office-holder. This points to the inherently shared and contingent nature of Commission President's leadership in a Union where the leadership sources are widely dispersed. While this is essentially an empirical study, Endo addresses some of the theoretical implications of its findings and resulting issues.