TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative leadership in EMU governance
T2 - a matter of cognitive proximity
AU - Müller, Henriette
AU - Van Esch, Femke A.W.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, under grant agreement number 649484-Transcrisis. They also would like to thank the 17 experts who participated in the survey for their cooperation. In addition, the authors are very grateful to the participants of the ECPR Joint Sessions workshop ‘The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy Making’, held 10–14 April 2018 in Nicosia, as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this article.
Funding Information:
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [Grant Agreement Number: 649484-Transcrisis]. The authors acknowledge funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, under grant agreement number 649484-Transcrisis. They also would like to thank the 17 experts who participated in the survey for their cooperation. In addition, the authors are very grateful to the participants of the ECPR Joint Sessions workshop ‘The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy Making’, held 10–14 April 2018 in Nicosia, as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/7/28
Y1 - 2020/7/28
N2 - Collaborative leadership has stood at the heart of European politics since its inception. Yet EU scholars have only recently started to examine the concept and mainly from an institutional perspective. This article conceptualises the phenomenon of collaborative leadership from an actor-centered perspective. It explores a central condition for successful collaborative leadership identified in the literature: the existence of shared beliefs among the leaders involved. To do this, the article focuses on four events in the history of European Economic and Monetary Union. Using the method of cognitive mapping, the study establishes the extent of congruence in the beliefs on European integration and fiscal and monetary policy of the four leadership trios overseeing these events. On the basis of a survey of leading experts in the field, the article reveals that the level of cognitive proximity in leaders’ beliefs aligns with the perceived success with which the trios exerted collaborative leadership.
AB - Collaborative leadership has stood at the heart of European politics since its inception. Yet EU scholars have only recently started to examine the concept and mainly from an institutional perspective. This article conceptualises the phenomenon of collaborative leadership from an actor-centered perspective. It explores a central condition for successful collaborative leadership identified in the literature: the existence of shared beliefs among the leaders involved. To do this, the article focuses on four events in the history of European Economic and Monetary Union. Using the method of cognitive mapping, the study establishes the extent of congruence in the beliefs on European integration and fiscal and monetary policy of the four leadership trios overseeing these events. On the basis of a survey of leading experts in the field, the article reveals that the level of cognitive proximity in leaders’ beliefs aligns with the perceived success with which the trios exerted collaborative leadership.
KW - Collaborative leadership
KW - Commission president
KW - European Economic and Monetary Union
KW - European integration
KW - French president
KW - German chancellor
KW - cognitive mapping
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U2 - 10.1080/01402382.2019.1678950
DO - 10.1080/01402382.2019.1678950
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074986032
SN - 0140-2382
VL - 43
SP - 1117
EP - 1140
JO - West European Politics
JF - West European Politics
IS - 5
ER -