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Montané, Michel-Alexis. "Leadership politique et territoire : comparaison intermédiaire de trois configurations départementales." Bordeaux 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999BOR40036.
Full textWassouo, Emmanuel. "Représentations du leadership politique féminin et différences culturelles : comparaison entre la France et le Cameroun." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAH005/document.
Full textThe aim of this thesis was to understand why despite the real demographic, political and economic qualities of women, despite the regulatory and judicial measures, Cameroonians and French citizens adhere very little to female political leadership. This thesis suggests to apprehend electoral intentions and electoral behaviors using the 2013 municipal and legislative elections in Cameroun and the 2014 municipal elections in France. Hence we argued that cultural differences portrayed by the representations of female political leadership can allow for the identification of Cameroonian and French citizens’ behaviors with regards to the presence of women in political positions.Three empirical studies for Cameroun on one hand (N=338) and for France (N=310) on the other hand were conducted. The construction of the questionnaire was mainly inspired by two approaches, namely the theory of planned behavior by Ajzen and Fishben (1985) and the representation of female political leadership by Vergès (1992;1994).In the first study (Cameroun and France), we observed that voting intentions in favor of female political leadership were all the more high that the representations were positive towards female political leadership. Likewise, when the electorates showed a positive attitude towards female political leadership, they perceived it as strength and thus portrayed a favorable intention towards the female political leadership. Female gender stereotypes (e.g. warmth, accommodating, maternal) induced positive political leadership representations in Cameroun; unlike in France. In other words, these representations mediated the link between attitudes, stereotypes and voting intentions in favor of female political leadership whereas in France these representations mediated only the link between attitudes and voting intentions. The second study (Cameroun and France) used the same data as the Study 1. Here, we examined the variations of voting intentions in favor of female political leadership with regards to adherence to beliefs, cultural values and subjective norms. We observed that in France, when participants adhere strongly to beliefs and cultural values, their voting intentions tend to be favorable towards female political leadership. However, we did not observe a link between adherence to beliefs and cultural values and favorable voting intentions towards female political leadership with the Cameroonian participants. Concerning Cameroonians, the representation of female political leadership was all the more favorable when they adhered strongly to beliefs and cultural values. With reference to the French participants, female political leadership did not vary significantly in function of their adhesion to beliefs and cultural values. In Cameroun as well as in France, when participants attributed importance to the viewpoints of people who are considered as experts in women political leadership and are motivated to conform to it, their voting intentions in favor of female political leadership was high. The results from this study also revealed that adhering to beliefs and cultural values as well as subjective norms was not mediated by the representations of female political leadership.The third study evaluated voting intentions in favor of female political leadership in relation to perceived behavioral control. We then examined the interaction between perceived behavioral control and electoral experience. The results were not conclusive for the two samples (France, Cameroun).Finally, the global model (Cameroun and France) was tested simultaneously with all variables of the three studies. The final conceptual model for Cameroun was confirmed by the results of the analysis. This model fitted with the data collected and proved to be the most parsimonious than the French model. These results conveyed an interesting contribution to the research and were discussed in light of existing theoretical knowledge
Chérigui, Hayète. "La politique méditerranéenne de la France : entre diplomatie collective et leadership." Paris 5, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA05D005.
Full textFor more than sixty years, France has always presented projects for the Mediterranean actors, above all from 1983 to 1995 founded on a multilaterization of their relationships and a systematization of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea in order to strengthen its role and its place in the region and to reaffirm its leadership capacities. The Mediterranean institutionalization and its conceptualization as a regional sub system through the organization of regular meetings and conferences as the forum Mediterranean aim more at reinforce its leadership than to promote a multilateral political economical and cultural approach. The post cold war period has confirmed this global and regional policy and the French initiative and revealed the linkage between the collective proposal and the French ambition leadership in the western Mediterranean and in the Machreq
El, Kadiri Yasmina. "Le développement du leadership des jeunes professionnels : une analyse par le self-leadership, l’habileté politique et les réseaux." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024ASSA0016.
Full textThis research focuses on the accelerated development of leader and leadership capacity in young professionals. It aims to provide an understanding of the dynamic of this process and its underlying generating mechanisms. The evolution of the science of leadership as well as the transformations in the organizational, technological, and social environments are changing the landscape and engineering of leadership development. New spaces, new temporalities, new behaviors and learning modes causes the organization to modify its perspective on leadership talent identification and leadership development. Rooted in the new leadership development paradigm, based on the differentiation between leader (human capital) and leadership (social capital) initiated by Day (2000), the research highlights one core idea: young professionals’ leader and leadership development can be accelerated through a self-development process that occurs in networks located outside and around organizations. This process needs to be better understood. To do so, the research design leverages Bandura’s socio-cognitivetheory (1986) and Giddens’s structuration theory (1984). A mixed method structures the empirical study : qualitative survey and confirmatory quantitative survey of international young leaders belonging to three networks Results reveal that the self-leadership and political skill constructs are two prominent drivers of the accelerated leader and leadership development of networked young professionals. These two drivers are interacting in a recursive dynamic way powered by several underlying mechanisms. A virtuous dialectic operates between personal factors, behaviors and the network environment
Abirached, Philippe. "Charisme, communauté et subjectivité : la place du leader dans la construction du lien politique au Liban : le cas du général Michel Aoun (1988-2010)." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0124.
Full textWhereas political charisma is usually understood as the personal attribute of the charismatic leader, this work asserts that the followers play a major role in the charismatic relationship and should be consequently seen as one of its main constituents. Based upon the case study of the leadership of general Michel Aoun, a prominent lebanese political figure, this research looks into the connection between charismatic "claim to legitimacy" and political and communal identifications that the leader arouses. How does an army's Chief Commander appointed as head of a transitional government responsible for supervising presidential elections in 1988 managed to establish himself as the ultimate solution to the lebanese political cri sis? How do political allegiances and obedience to the leader's directives remain in spite of the failure of his national rescue mission in 1990 and his political and military defeat? Assuming that charisma is related to the leader's propensity to activate or reactivate boundaries within his group as weIl as between his continuity and other communities, this thesis analyzes and criticizes the notion of za 'âma (leadership). Starting from that idea of the leader's action on the boundaries of collective identity, we aim at rereading the concepts of charisma and community in order to show that understanding "followership" dynamics can help us throwing some light on the mechanism of charismatic leadership
Payre, Renaud. "Ordre politique et gouvernement urbain." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Lumière - Lyon II, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00286432.
Full textCe mémoire livre une telle discussion en s'appuyant sur des travaux empiriques menés sur la réforme municipale dans le premier vingtième siècle, la circulation des savoirs administratifs, la structuration des réseaux de villes et enfin les liens entre temporalité de l'action publique et temporalité de l'élection. Ces travaux conduisent tous à une discussion du modèle centre-périphérie. Les rapports centre-périphérie sont mis en question à la lumière non seulement de l'émergence d'un gouvernement des villes, mais aussi de la capacité de certains acteurs publics, des leaders, à agir et à peser sur les institutions.
Hancock, Eleanor. "The national socialist leadership and total war 1941-5 /." New York : St. Martin's press, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb374707263.
Full textTitre de couv. "National socialism leadership and total war 1941-45" Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. Index.
Beauregard, Philippe. "Beyond cold monsters : a cognitive-affective theory of international leadership." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/36238.
Full textLeadership is a process of social inflence through which an actor advocating for a position on an international issue induces followers to converge on the same position. Leadership in this sense, as a process of cooperation, has been neglected in the study of international politics. An accumulating body of evidence reveals that the United States is not the only state that can produce international leaders, and that policymakers from other states can also take the lead. Why is someone willing to take the lead? Why are other actors willing to follow this leader and not someone else, or just refuse to agree with the leader’s stance? To explain how the leadership process works, I develop a Cognitive-Affective Theory of international leadership. My argument is that leaders are willing to take the lead because of their strong convictions, and seek to persuade their followers that their position is representative of the wider community of which they are part. Followers rally behind the leader when their emotional beliefs align with the leader, when the leader’s position and behavior are representative of the community, and when mechanisms of persuasion and emotional resonance bring them closer to the leader’s position. In order to test this theory, I concentrate on the leadership process among transatlantic powers: the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. I study the cooperation between transatlantic policymakers on crucial issues that emerged during four cases of internationalized intrastate conflicts: recognition of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia as new sovereign states, peace mediation in the war between Russia and Georgia, economic sanctions against Russia during the Ukraine conflict, and construction of a broader coalition conducting air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Chadel, Frédérique. "Étude comparative du leadership au sein des partis politiques : le rassemblement pour la République et le Partido Popular." Aix-Marseille 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX32036.
Full textKatumanga, Musambayi Chrisanthus. "Leadership, organisation et prise du pouvoir : les causes du succès des mouvements de résistance en Ouganda et au Rwanda (1981-2000)." Pau, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PAUU2009.
Full textKauzya, John-Mary. "Leadership responsabilité "governance" et performance des entreprises publiques en Ouganda." Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA010285.
Full textDespite common belief that the unsatisfactory performance of Uganda's public enterprises is caused by factors internal to the enterprises themselves (lack of finance, material inputs, technology and competent personnel, etc. ), other factors associated with the system of leadership, accountability and governance of the state are equally responsible. Beyond the economic motives declared by the country's governments since 1952 for creating public enterprises, there are undeclared socio-political objectives which are more determinant. In a dictatorial system where there is the desire to dominate the administration of the economy to protect the monopoly of political power, the extension of the public enterprises sector is accompanied by the absence of its evaluation ; something that masks its inefficience and ineffectiveness. Behind the apparently bureaucratic (in weber's terms) structures which should link the managers of the enterprises to the institutions of their control (boards of directors, responsible ministers, parliament, etc. ), there are behaviours (disrespect for laws and established procedures, personnalisatioin of duties, corruption, nepotisme, overconcentration of reponsibilities, etc. ) Which hinder accountablity and modern enterprise management principles. The Ugandian public enterprise is a battlefield where political and individual interests confront modermanagement principles
Signorello, Rosario. "La voix charismatique : aspects psychologiques et caractéristiques acoustiques." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENL004/document.
Full textThis dissertation analyzes the charismatic voice in the context of political leadership. It is shown that the speaker-leader uses his/her voice based on two functions. The primary function is biological and consists of manipulating changes in fundamental frequency in order to be recognized as the leader of the group. The secondary function is learned and dependent upon the language spoken and the culture that one belongs to, and consists of changing voice quality in order to convey different traits and types of charisma. These functions are employed in order to persuade an audience and achieve certain goals. The phenomenon of charisma is first addressed through social-cognitive theory that distinguishes charisma of the mind (the leader's thought, actions, and vision expressed through written and spoken language) from charisma of the body (all non-verbal behaviors used for expressing one's message, affects, and emotions. Certain adjectives were established through empirical research to describe positive and negative traits in French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese speech. The tool MASCharP (Multi-dimensional Adjective-based Scale of Charisma Perception) was then developed in order to evaluate the charismatic traits of an individual's perceptible behavior. The study then establishes an acoustic and perceptual description of the charismatic voice. Speech range profiles are created for French, Italian, and Brazilian male leaders in order to represent the leaders' vocal extension in different communication contexts (formal vs. informal). The voice profiles demonstrate how the leaders adopt a particular vocal strategy related to the communication context as well as the leaders' persuasive strategy. These results show cross-language and cross-cultural similarities in leaders' vocal behavior. The following experimental phase demonstrates the influence of voice quality on the perception of different types and attributes of charismatic leadership. The speaker-leader uses his vocal production to be recognized as the leader of a group. This is true for all formal communication contexts wherein the leader must express his leadership and has a persuasive goal to achieve. If he wants to submit group members and hopes to appear as a dominant or threatening leader, the leader uses a low fundamental frequency associated with phonatory types such as creaky voice. If he wants to be perceived as a sincere, calm, and reassuring, he uses a higher fundamental frequency associated with his modal voice, avoiding phonatory types such as harsh voice. This is the primary function of the charismatic voice. Lastly, this study shows that, in political discourse, the traits of a charismatic leader are filtered by the language and cultural context of the interaction. The secondary function of the charismatic voice is therefore addressed: the use of one's voice for conveying different types of charisma, as characterized by varying attributes, is filtered through the language and culture that favor certain charismatic vocal behaviors which serve as prototypes that correspond to the audience's inherent expectations
Montigny, Eric. "Contraintes institutionnelles, leadership et sélection des objectifs partisans au sein des partis politiques: les cas du parti Québécois et du labour britannique." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/26898/26898.pdf.
Full textRivaud, Philippe. "Leadership et gouvernance communautaire: la commission européenne et l'idée de service universel des télécommunictions (1987-1998)." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001IEPP0021.
Full textBiyandza, Jean-Bosco. "Un exemple de leadership présidentiel et de processus de démocratisation en marche dans l'Afrique aujourd'hui : le processus de démocratisation au Gabon." Paris 10, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA100174.
Full textTrovalusci, Sara. "Francesco Crispi. La personnalisation de la politique entre l’Italie et la France." Thesis, Orléans, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ORLE1173.
Full textThis thesis concerns the construction of the political myth of Francis Crispi and its reception in the years 1876–1896. At the end of the 19th century, the economic crisis, politics and society in Italy brought about the birth of current antiparliamentary sentiment and the appeal to a strong man who can save the nation from danger. Francesco Crispi introduced himself as the man of providence and proposed a strong government that found its legitimacy in the image of its leader. As historians have already observed, Crispi was a man of the 19th century, appointed from the parliamentary left and a proponent of limited suffrage. He still embodies, therefore, the traditional political figure of the rich notable Italian. Despite this, he contributed to the inauguration of a new kind of politics, thanks to an extraordinary ability to fascinate that made him the object of a true national cult. The last chapter of this thesis is devoted to France of the fin-du-siècle, whose situation had many similarities to the Italian case, particularly the redefinition of the concept of leadership due to the fast political career of Georges Boulanger. Analysis of the experience of the French general, combined with the similar analysis of Crispi, enables a wider examination of the different phases of the construction of the myth of the strong man via the numerous points of contact between the two cases
Kirongozi, Bob-Limbaya. "L'État "patriarchique" en Afrique Noire : prémisses, idéologie, structures, fonctionnement et évolution d'un état hybride." Nancy 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994NAN20008.
Full textThe state in black Africa is a political project fundamentally different from what has been obtained and what can be seen elsewhere, particularly in the west. Many theories have attempted to explain this form of political organisation in more or less convincing way. In our opinion, the state in black Africa is a "patriarchie", that is, a political system based on the authority and the leadership of a person who is the "founding father" and who holds essential powers and creates filial relationships with the governed. This state is created by an institutional process of hybridation which borrows elements from the local socio-political system; these elements are conjugated with those originating from modes of organisation of foreign societies. In a strategy of carrying out leadership of the "patriarque", the "patriarchic" state creates a monolithic or pluralistic organisation. It ensures the stability of the government. By the ideology of "African authenticity", and also by the political violence and the "patrimonialisation" of the national economy. This type of state is that which we observed in Zaire, Togo, Ivory Coast and Gabon during the last 25 or 30 years
Gabry, Ghislaine. "Les mutations du parti libéral-libéral-démocrate vers la (re)conquête du pouvoir (1976-2015)." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UBFCH035.
Full textThis research work is devoted to the study of the Liberal/Liberal-Democrat Party and the organizational changes that its successive leaders implemented between 1976 and 2015 to (re)conquer power. David Steel, Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy and Nick Clegg somehow reclaimed the legacy of Jo Grimond, who had devised the strategy of the realignment of the left in the 1950s to manage its relationships with the Conservative and Labour Parties and become a government party.Each of them gave their own version of this strategy to adapt to a changing environment with a party system that was no longer a solid two-party system. The successive organizational mutations (professionalization, a change in the dominant coalition, an ideological shift), which were leader-driven, altered the balance of intra-party power relations between the leadership, the parliamentary party and the members; they even threatened its unity. Our research work seeks to articulate this dual approach, that is to say the intra-party and inter-party dynamics, to study the organizational tensions that the Liberal/Liberal Democrat leaders’ strategies generated and the different organizational actors’ reactions
Obin, Jean-Luc. "Questions philosophiques sur le leadership." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0005.
Full textIn this thesis, leadership means the addition of power with authority. One of them may come without the other, but both are necessary to be a real leadership.Power has ever been in the heart of human beings, and all of us are oversensitive to leadership.In the current huge anthropological transformations, leadership is the central link between the individualization of the persons and the individualization of the companies. The requirements of the person (for her individualization) and of the company (for its development) don’t converge. On one side, a need for respect and humanization ; on the other, a need for more efficiency. A convergence of these tendencies can result only from a good leadership.Theories on companies, on one hand, on leadership, on the other, are most often influenced by non scientific ideas or ideologies. Concepts for the study of leadership are structured by a profound wish to free and to develop people, which exists probably more in the Academic community’s major philosophies that in realities and day-to-day life, with all their so difficult challenges.Leadership needs cultural deepenings, in particular from a philosophical point of view. For instance, the notion of private power has not been really studied, unlike the notion of public powers.The complexity - and the importance for all of us - of the leaders and other participants’ agendas need working to develop a personal leadership culture as well as a shared leadership culture in each organization, so that leadership could become the heart of the corporate culture
Tolédo, Alain de. "Contribution à une économie politique du pouvoir." Paris 8, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA080753.
Full textThe definition of public good as a form of the wealth founded by the relation attribution contribution allow to study power as also an ecomical category. Process of production of public goods determines a budgetary economy in wich transfers constitute the fundamental law of functionning. A collective decision is needed to set in action these transfers, this decision is characterized by its double nature, both neutral and partial. Power appears then as a beyond of the collective decision : wether administrative management, or desir of power, power is the result of the process of production of public goods and the mover of this process
Rittelmeyer, Yann-Sven. "Les sommets restreints et l'Union européenne : la pratique des sommets restreints dans l'histoire de la construction européenne /." Paris ; Budapest ; Kinshasa [etc.] : [Strasbourg] : l'Harmattan ; [Institut d'études politiques, Université Robert-Schuman], 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb402384203.
Full textSéverin, Marianne. "Les réseaux ANC (1910-2004) : histoire politique de la constitution du leadership de la nouvelle Afrique du Sud." Bordeaux 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR40048.
Full textAfter a little more than forty years of discriminatory regime, South Africa's political scene changed in April 1994 with the victory of the African National Congress (ANC), accessing to the head of the Government. With these first democratic and multiracial elections, new political executives representing the whole South-African population, replaced those who had represented the white minority only. These new dealers, although lacking a bit of experience in State management, are long time political professionals. They followed their political courses between the years 1940 and 1990 as anti-apartheid activists. Then, they became actors of influence during the democratisation phase and the elections' victory. In order to understand their course and to give answers to the question concerning criteria of nominations between the middle of the years 1980 (during the secret negociations) and 2004, this thesis took into account the courses of life and the acquisition of "political competence" during the opposition years, to finally identify the criteria of selection and reconstitute the "ANC Networks"
Joffres, Adeline. "Le populisme comme matrice de la politique extérieure : Le cas du Venezuela." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030139.
Full textThis thesis aims to show evidence for existing correlations between populist charismatic leadership and the Venezuelan foreign policy, whilst these two topics are traditionally considered independently from each other. The geo-historical study of the construction of the Venezuelan nation state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries explains its « corporate identity ». The state precedes the nation that builds up from external conflict and mutual recognition, for dominant political leadership reasons (personalistic and / or authoritarian), and to overcome the trauma caused by the conflict and the failure of the unifying supranational project (Gran Colombia) by mythifying political representations of the people and power. This process suggests the shaping of a populist political matrix aiming to complete this identity by prolonging the appeal to the people, both inside and outside the country. The work then focuses on mechanisms aiming at building and routinizing Hugo Chávez Frías’s charismatic and populist leadership. It also studies the broadcasting channels and the globalization of this type of leadership which are similar to the « Bolivarian » multiple diplomacy. Thus, the people are no longer just a group of Venezuelan nationals but a much wider « Bolivarian » community. Populism is no longer conceived as a moment nor considered as expressing itself exclusively within the country, but as a global system that feeds as much as it is fed from others and from the outside. Foreign policy can thus be analyzed in terms of a transnationalized policy
Leyrie, Christophe. "Étude exploratoire de la gestion politique des parties prenantes dans un projet : vers une compétence collective." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30019.
Full textFor numerous organizations today, competitive gains rely on a cross-disciplinary approach of project type. Furthermore, as projects multiply and open on their internal and external environments, success is increasingly measured in terms of value for the growing number of actors or stakeholders directly or indirectly involved in the projects.In light of this, the aim of our research is to contribute to a better understanding of how managers can create favorable conditions for good progress and the success of projects involving numerous stakeholders. More specifically, a comparison of the literature on organizational politics, project management and competence led us to question the possibility of a collective competence for the political management of project stakeholders.Based on a qualitative methodological plan, including a series of preliminary interviews and two longitudinal embedded case studies, we confirm the existence of a true political competence and, for the first time, we describe how it is shaped and how it operates at an individual, collective, organizational and inter-organizational level. This leads us to support a conceptualization of shared leadership and a more authentic approach of project stakeholder management as a source of performance. Finally, we have proposed several avenues of further research to implement real collective political competence management
Lippmann, Quentin. "Gender, Institutions and Politics." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEH002.
Full textThis thesis studies the link between institutions, gender and politics. Three questions are studied: can institutions undo gender norms? Would institutions be more gender-egalitarian if they were headed by women? Why are women absent from positions of power?The first chapter of this thesis tests whether institutions can undo gender. In particular, we study the consequences of institutions on the perpetuation of gender norms. We study the norm according to which a woman should earn less than her husband. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show that East German institutions have undone gender. East German women can earn more than their husband without increasing their number of housework hours, put their marriage at risk, or withdraw from the labor market. By contrast, the norm of higher male income and its consequences are still prevalent in the West.The second chapter studies whether institutions would be more gender-egalitarian if more women were heading them. In particular, I test whether female politicians have the same priorities than their male counterparts. The context studied is the French Parliament from 2001 to 2017. Using text analysis and quasi-experimental variations to randomize legislators' gender, this chapter shows that women are twice more likely to initiate women-related amendments in the Lower House. Women's issues constitute the key topic on which women are more active, followed by health and childhood issues whereas men are more active on military issues. I provide supporting evidence that these results are driven by the individual interest of legislators. Finally, I replicate these results in the Upper House by exploiting the introduction of a gender quota.The third chapter studies the reasons behind the underrepresentation of women in positions of power. I investigate whether the persistence of incumbents hinders female access to political positions when incumbents are predominantly men. I exploit regression discontinuity from close electoral races in French municipalities to randomize the eligibility of incumbent mayors for reelection. Despite a context increasingly favorable to the election of women, I find that the persistence of incumbents does not block female access to the position of mayor. I investigate the mechanisms and show that it is more difficult for a woman to replace a female incumbent than a male one
Forquilha, Salvador Cadete. "Des "autoridades gentílicas" aux "autoridades comunitárias" : le processus de mobilisation de la chefferie comme ressource politique : État, chefferie et démocratisation au Mozambique : le cas du district de Cheringoma." Bordeaux 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR40006.
Full textBelhadj, Souhaïl. "Le leadership politique sous le prisme de l'autoritarisme ba'thiste syrien (2000-2010) : la décennie au pouvoir de Bashar al-Asad." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012IEPP0073.
Full textNatielse, Kouléga Julien. "Le Burkina Faso depuis 1991 : entre stabilite politique et illusionnisme démocratique." Phd thesis, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00957659.
Full textBolduc, Brandon. "Montréal parmi les grands de l’organisation C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group : analyse du processus de mise à l’agenda décisionnel de son adhésion." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39852.
Full textMunteanu, Anca. "Itinéraire d'un courant politique : le mouvement tunisien Ennahdha." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAD003.
Full textThe challenge of this thesis was to present the ideology and the turning points in the history of the Tunisian Islamist movement, Ennahdha, starting from its creation in the late 1960s until 2018. The first part of the thesis focuses on its political commitment. This approach enabled us to distinguish several phases that marked the development of the party: after the clandestine activity at the time of the jama‘a islamiyya and the MTI, some brief moments of semi-legality (in the 1980s) and about twenty years of repression, the leadership of the party has been giving evidence of political pragmatism mostly after 2013. In fact, Ennahdha’s experience indicates that since the revolution the electoral victories have become its major interest. The second part of the thesis highlights that this strategy imposes on the party a constant evolution in the attempt to respond to the political actors’ demands, while keeping its militant base faithful and aiming, at the same time, to attract new members outside the Islamist core. Thus, our research studies the recent reconfigurations of the movement and draws the attention to the limits of these mutations. We emphasize especially on the “restyling” of Ennahdha′s discourse which renew its political and ideological references on the occasion of its tenth congress (in May 2016). Moreover, we resorted to various theories of elites and political transitions, in order to analyse Ennahdha′s political practice after the revolution. Additionally, in a comparative perspective, we examined its history and ideological reconfigurations in contrast with the experience of the occidental communist and Christian democratic parties and the Party of Justice and Development in Morocco. This theoretical framework enabled us to evaluate Ennahdha′s political strategies and its ideological mutations and study how the party operates, how it is structured and how its leaders are selected, in order to determine its degree of democratization, as well as its perspectives on the Tunisian political scene
Vaknin, Benny. "The mayor's vision and leadership in sustainable urban economic development." Thesis, Lille 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL1I105.
Full textThis research is focused on the case study of the historical development of the City of Ashkelonduring the tenure of the author as its Deputy Mayor and subsequently as the Mayor of the City.This case study illustrates the impact of the author’s mayoral vision, as well as his leadership,self-determination and perseverance on the local governance capacity to accomplish the mayoralstrategic sustainable urban development goals, including: upgrading the performance of the widediversity of the urban service sectors, stimulating environmentally sustainable economicdevelopment, alleviating unemployment, improving the educational systems at all levels,ensuring integrated urbanization that effectively meets the societal needs of fast expandingmulti-cultural population, and promoting quality of life. Performance measures and national andlocal data statistics illustrate the significant societal, economic and environmental impacts of theprograms implemented to support the population expansion from 63,000 residents in 1991 to138,000 in 2017 and promote economic growth as a core target goal of local governance forsustainable urban development. This case study demonstrates that the mayoral leadership is amain factor in building local governance commitment to achieving excellence and promoting highperformance urbanization standards of municipal services, educational systems, socio-culturalintegration, environmental quality preservation, and other critical aspects of sustainable urbandevelopment. It proposes and illustrates the implementation of a sustainable development modelfor cities, which experience a fast population growth under extreme environmental conditionsfacing climate change impacts and geo-political stress
McDonald, Ryan. "Outsides-in insides-out, a leadership system case study of one Canadian Indian Reserve." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58360.pdf.
Full textIonascu, Alexandra A. "Les élites politiques et la prise de décision gouvernementale: considérations sur le cas roumain, 1989-2007." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210401.
Full textDe la sorte, menée d’une manière constructiviste, la recherche suscite la délimitation d’une série de réponses à la question :Comment les trajectoires politiques des ministres et des secrétaires d’Etat influent-elles sur la prise de décision gouvernementale en Roumanie postcommuniste ?L’influence des élites gouvernementales est analysée sur deux grands axes de recherche :(1) une dimension qui vise les relations qui se forgent entre les acteurs au niveau organisationnel –institutionnel et (2) une dimension qui porte sur le contenu même des politiques entamées. D’une manière compréhensive, intégrant plusieurs approches centrées sur les élites, le cadre analytique imbrique les effets estimés au niveau du parti et les effets établis au niveau du fonctionnement des exécutifs.
Les conclusions de la thèse soulignent l’importance du profil des acteurs gouvernementaux dans la coordination de l’activité des exécutifs durant la période 1989-2007. L’expérience politique des acteurs, tout comme leur position dans le parti sont des facteurs essentiels dans la définition des degrés d’autonomie décisionnelle et des marges de liberté dont les gouvernants disposent dans la création des politiques. L’étude met en exergue le fait que cette caractéristique décrivant l'existence d'un impact direct des acteurs individuels sur le caractère collégial, consensuel ou conflictuel de l’activité du cabinet, tout comme leur influence sur la réalisation du programme gouvernemental ne constituent pas une idiosyncrasie de la transition démocratique, mais un modèle de comportement consolidé dans le cas des exécutifs roumains.
Doctorat en sciences politiques
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Bessard, Rudy. "Pouvoir personnel et ressources politiques : Gaston Flosse en Polynesie francaise." Thesis, Pau, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PAUU2011/document.
Full textThe strategic mobilization of multidimensional political resources allows the political leader to take power in a political space. Then, the leader uses a combination of political capacities to keep the power and extend his domination. Thus, the political leadership of the Boss Gaston Flosse, in the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia, has become a personal rule inside the French Republic. The domination of the Polynesian sociopolitical space is illustrated by the plasticity of an authoritarian leadership, which questions the expressions of democracy in Tahiti, and in the French political regime
Guillerm, Gérard. "Alfonsín et Menem, présidents de l'Argentine : étude de la dimention charismatique du système politique argentin de 1983 à 1995." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030097.
Full textThe leaderships of Alfonsin and Menem refer to a type of authority which, in the political field, was qualified, principally in the weberian acception, of "charismatic". The argentinian case delimited by the dates of 1983 -return of democracy with the election of Alfonsin- and 1989 -political change with the election of Menem- appears, from this point of view, as singular. On one hand, we can observe that the charismatic attestation of Alfonsin and Menem shows itself in the mark of the reappeared democracy in a space of approximately six years only. On the other hand, this charismatic attestation reveals strategies of change which are considered as connected to this ideal-type which Weber has conceptualizde. .
Junger, Frédéric. "La mise en scène des personnels politiques sur les réseaux sociaux, relations et interactions dans les communautés d’administrés." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UBFCH015.
Full textThis doctoral research in Communication Sciences focuses on the relationship between politicians and citizens in the context of digital social networks. The purpose of this research is to highlight the elements that contribute to the construction of the public image of a political figure in the digital age and to see what the effects are on citizens. Our systemic approach is an observation conducted on online exchange platforms as well as on an analysis of corpus built on the basis of a collection of publications, on Twitter and Facebook in particular. The general question that guides our approach is: how do policies take place on digital networks and what the effects on other users are ? Our starting hypothesis is that the online presence of policies is not realized in a goal of exchange and interaction, despite the promises and opportunities offered by online devices. Our observations and analyzes show that there are different possibilities to question online relationships and interactions. On the one hand, in the use that policies make of this new tool of political communication, and on the other hand in the forms of citizen participation
Natielse, Kouléga Julien. "Le Burkina Faso de 1991 à nos jours : entre stabilité politique et illusionnisme démocratique." Phd thesis, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00869173.
Full textCodjia, Paul. "Le dire et le désir : une ethnographie des usages affectifs et politiques de la parole chez les Wampis (Amazonie péruvienne)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0197.
Full textThe Wampis belong to a language family known as Jivaro and reside in the northern Peruvian Amazon. From the 1950s onwards, their settlements have undergone a nucleation process into villages, driven by Christian missionaries, which transformed the hitherto sporadic distribution of houses on their territory. Following a vast agrarian reform carried out by the Peruvian government, the 1974 Indigenous Communities Act granted these villages with common property titles over a plot of forestland to carry out their subsistence activities (hunting, fishing, horticulture). As a condition for obtaining these titles, the law requires the election of a steering committee headed by a president. This newly established access to property has led to the emergence of a state-like hierarchical structure within the Wampis collective. Inspired by this governance model, three hundred Wampis leaders proclaimed the birth of the Wampis Nation Territorial Autonomous Government (GTANW) in 2015, not recognized by the Peruvian central state. This government places under its jurisdiction the "ancestral" territory, encompassing all Wampis communal properties. Yet this political organization, presented as necessary to defend the territory from extractive ambitions and the pollution they generate, creates a tension with respect to these individuals and their families’ atavistic attachment to autonomy. Indeed, they spontaneously refuse to submit to the authority of a non-consanguineous person.Being autonomous, that is, being able to follow and fulfill one’s desires, is an ideal of personal achievement that is actively sought, as illustrated by the ritual quests of a powerful Arutam spirit. A successful quest, carried out with the use of psychotropic plants, grants an individual with the spirit’s power and the strength to achieve personal ambitions (studying, starting a family, working in a paid job or becoming a political leader). The spirit can also transmit magical Anen songs to the seeker. These secretly uttered incantations have the power to influence the addressee’s thoughts, emotions and actions in order to satisfy the singer’s desires. Their postulated effectiveness rests on specific pragmatic and emotional conditions that the singer must strive to reproduce with each recitation.My investigation compares two distinctive modalities of speech use that my hosts employ to shape their relational network and leadership: ritual speech and political speech. The ritual speech of the Anen songs is used in secret to satisfy the desires and needs of individuals. It serves personal fulfillment. Public political speech aims at defending the common interests by confronting individual speaking skills. The political speech must serve the realization of the collective or, more exactly, must serve individual realization by the medium of collective realization. In both contexts, the speakers are primarily concerned with the emotional effects of their words on the addressees. My thesis argues that, by reproducing the pragmatic and emotional conditions necessary for the effectiveness of Anen songs, the leader tries to give his speeches the same performative force as that of incantations. Through a pragmatic analysis of the uses of speech, integrating their emotional dimension, I show that my hosts provide an original answer to the existing tension between autonomy and state hierarchical organization: the chief is only legitimate if he is powerful enough to give others, through his own speech, the strength, courage and skills to fulfill their desires and to be leaders. The leader produces political rivals. Therefore, to maintain his power, the Wampis leader must establish the conditions for his own dismissal
Bin, Mohd Razalli Farizal. "Explaining the role of leadership : the formation of four natural gas pipeline projects in South America and Southeast Asia compared." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014IEPP0015.
Full textThis study compares four natural gas pipeline cooperation projects in South America and Southeast Asia. It identifies the role of leadership by highlighting issues that matter to actors and factors that condition strategies to form regional gas cooperation projects. The study's key methodological objective is to develop a leadership analytical framework by synthesizing regime and leadership theories. It then constructs analytical narratives of the four natural gas pipeline cooperation projects. Toward this end, various primary and secondary sources are exploited, which are complemented by expert interviews and field observation. The comparative analysis shows that actors involved in regional gas cooperation projects are multiple and complex. Their interactions occur under two processes: political and commercial. These processes are further affected by three contexts: political, economic, and technical. At the political level, actors are preoccupied with the strategy to formulate vision and objectives for the cooperation project. Because states are dominant at this stage, consultation with larger stakeholders is often absent. At the commercial level, public and private actors are at the forefront forming partnerships and engaging themselves in intense lobbying for bath political and financial support. Such intense relationship between these actors reveals a particular leadership type called proxy leadership. The overall provision of leadership in both South America and Southeast Asia is driven by three catalysts: power, governance, and culture. While power and culture are more crucial in South American case studies, both regions seem to share rather weak governance in forming regional gas cooperation projects
Grivaud, Arnaud. "La réorganisation du pouvoir politique au Japon : la haute fonction publique dans le système politique japonais des années 1990 à nos jours." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC155/document.
Full textIn a State's political system, the role that the bureaucracy plays constitute a central issue, as the efficiency of the government's policies and the realization of the democratic principle are at stake. From the 1990's on, the bureaucracy has suffered a lot of criticisms blaming its failures and its allegedly excessive autonomy from the elected political power. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, many reforms inspired by the New Public Management movement were implemented, in order to – among other things – reinforce the political leadership and control over the senior civil servants. Our work examines these reforms and analyses the evolutions perceived in the decision-making process and in the politico-administrative relations during the last fifteen years, while rejecting the oversimplifying approach that necessarily brings in opposition elected politicians and civil servants. The case studies of the government Koizumi (2001-2006) and the Democratic Party of Japan‟s governments (2009-2012), which revealed incremental transformations but also the persistence of some pre-existing practices, invite us to consider other explanatory variables than the mere institutional change. In order to do so, we use theoretical tools created by the multiple neo-institutionalisms, insisting on the „weight of the past‟ and on the influence of the different ideas shared by the actors. We base our work on a corpus of primary and secondary sources, especially written in Japanese, on quantitative data, and also on some interviews conducted with Japanese senior civil servants
Maury, Caroline. "L' identitaire comme ressource politique transfrontialière entre architecture multiniveaux éclatée et fenêtre d'opportunité : "Perpinyá la catalana"." Aix-Marseille 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AIX32075.
Full textMuxagato, Bruno. "La Projection internationale du Brésil pour un monde multipolaire (2003-2010)." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CERG0673.
Full textDuring the past decade, Brazil has enjoyed the most important unprecedented international projection in all of its history, mainly due to the proactive diplomatic efforts of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration. Brazilian foreign policy was based on the construction of brazilian leadership in South America, combining the South-North relations (vertical axis) and South-South relations (horizontal axis) in order to convert Brazil into a global player. This thesis aims to explore the central issue of multipolarity in the international system through the example of the international insertion of Brazil. In this sense, this work aims to present the brazilian diplomacy during the two “Lula” presidential terms (2003-2006 and 2007-2010), analyzing its various initiatives on the international scene and the determinants of its action. The objective is to understand, according to the realistic theory of international relations, how diplomatic axes adopted by brazilian policymakers have contributed to transform their country into a leading player in the multipolar world and global debate
Bouchard, Valérie. "L'impact du leadership et de la base organisationnelle sur la performance des nouveaux partis ethniques : les cas du MAS et de Pachakutik." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25780/25780.pdf.
Full textUpadhayay, Neha Bhardwaj. "Uncovering the proliferation of contingent protection through channels of retaliation, gender and development assistance." Thesis, Paris Est, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PESC0022.
Full textThis dissertation contributes to the empirical literature on trade protection through three independent chapters that have a common strand between them: use of contingent protection by trading economies of the world. In addition to tackling the conventional question on strategic determinants of contingent protection with a special focus on the role of mechanisms like retaliation (Chapter 1), this dissertation contributes two novel studies to the intertwinings of political economy with contingent protection: gendered role of national leadership (Chapter 2) and official development assistance (Chapter 3)
Iglesias, Daniel. "Réseaux transnationaux et dynamiques contestataires en exil : sociologie historique des pratiques politiques des dirigeants des partis populaires apristes (1920-1962)." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070002.
Full textThis PhD essay concerns with the emergence and then the evolution of an anti-imperalistic, nationalist and democratic transnational network. The scientifïc interest and the originality of this historical sociology research lie in the uniqueness of this local and global collective action. This work tries to explain this network's way of functioning, distribution and organization, as well as the relational ties of this transnational experience ideologically close to the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA). In the scope of a theoretical reflection about the nature of the transnational political phenomena, this thesis also claims to be an application of the tools of the social networks analysis on a double scale collective actions (local and global). Furthermore, this essay proposes a reconsideration of methodologies and classical readings on the popular Aprista parties. In this sense, we inted to demonstrate that the embeddeness of political partisan elites close to this trend in networks allowed the creation of an original political and organizational culture between 1924 and 1960. For this, and after examining the implications and the types of interpersonal ties in this network, and especially the influence of this circulation on the political game of the Partido Aprista Peruano and venezuelan Action Democratica, we propose a modelization of action-set as an interpersonal field where networks and the interaction between the different actors turn out to be central
Benedic-Meyer, Diane. ""The only group..." : le rôle du Democratic Leadership Council dans la modernisation idéologique du parti démocrate : 1980-2011." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC008.
Full textIt is quite difficult for the young generation of Democratic voters who contributed to bring Barack Obama into power in 2008 and 2012 to imagine the electoral losing streak the Democratic Party endured after Ronald Reagan’s electoral victories in 1980 and 1984. Obama owes credit to both his efficient campaigns and the changes which have affected the Democratic Party since the 1980s for winning the executive office twice. The Democratic elected officials certainly had not waited for Jimmy Carter’s humiliating defeat in 1980 to reflect upon the situation but it is during the Reagan years that some Democratic influential members started taking action. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) became a key part of a sort of political and ideological aggiornamento which allowed the Democratic Party to rebuild its forces in less than ten years and to win back the executive office in 1992 with Bill Clinton’s election. From the early 1980s to its dissolution in 2011, the DLC devoted itself to the ideological modernization of the Democratic Party
Lemarier-Saulnier, Catherine. "Étude de l'impact de la réception des cadres médiatiques sur la genrisation de l'évaluation de la performance politique." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29965.
Full textThis thesis studies how people react to gendered news about political leaders. Doing so, we have used a mixed-methods design comprising three data collections. Our goal was to understand the gendered mediation of political leaders and its impact on leaders evaluation. Our first data collection is a content analysis of gendered news frames about political leaders during Quebec 2014 election. The second dataset was generated through an online thought listing experiment using three distinct experimental conditions. The third source of data is a series of focus groups, held a month after the election, with a sub-sample of our online experiment participants. Our results indicate that the masculine norm, especially the “Alpha Male” gendered identity, is dominant in the mediation of political leaders in the news coverage of the 2014 election, despite the presence of the first woman as incumbent prime minister. This “Alpha Male” norm is also present in the evaluation of political leaders measured in our thoughts listing, but with some variety. Some participants have used more gendered responses, especially those who were exposed to the gendered experimental conditions. Finally, focus groups reveal that the dominance of masculinity in the political arena is not questioned by citizens, and that the “Alpha Male” norm, is still used to evaluate Quebec political leaders during an election.
Salem, Manel. "The british Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher's leadership : conservatism seen from within." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30041.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the dynamics of continuity and change within the Conservative Party from 1979 to 1990, the period of Margaret Thatcher’s premierships. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that continuity had been the defining feature of the Conservative Party since the 18th and 19th centuries. The implementation of the primary values of early Conservatism continued with the advent of M. Thatcher to power although she represented, for many people, the epitome of change. This was all the more obvious in Margaret Thatcher’s public speeches when she was Leader of the Opposition. Change was, to her, necessary since British society was stagnant. In fact, Mrs. Thatcher could not accept what she considered as an “idle society.” When she was very little, Mrs. Thatcher learned that working hard was not only a duty but also an enjoyment. These feelings emanated from the values that she dearly cherished such as independence and perseverance. In this sense, therefore, change only meant the questioning of the postwar consensus. The policies implemented during the consensus period aimed at helping Britain and her citizens reconstruct. Margaret Thatcher was determined to dismantle the Keynesian social democracy that had permeated British politics since World War Two because of changing circumstances. The novelty of her politics lay in getting rid of the postwar consensus, broadly based on the welfare state and government intervention and encouraging a society whose members should be self-reliant and independent in addition to a strong economy capable of self-regulating without the need for regulation from the government. Freedom, individualism and autonomy were the ultimate consequences of deregulation. These values were the original values of Conservatism and their implementation in the 1980s was nothing but a return to Old Tory Conservatism. The continuity of the Conservative Party, which was interrupted by the politics of Keynesianism of the Labour Party, had therefore been reestablished. In order to trace this continuity, a number of archival material have been studied in the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge; archival material such as the minutes of the Conservative Party or the discussions that took place among Conservatives. Besides, how members of the Conservative Party themselves define British Conservatism sheds light on the nature of Conservatism. The Conservative Party has been considered to be the monolithic party par excellence but as a result of the increasing influence of other parties, notably the Labour Party after World War Two, Conservatives became more aware of the need to think more, innovate, create thinks tanks and express their distinct opinions more widely. They were no longer afraid of change given that “Everything needs to change, so that everything can stay the same” (The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa). An important part of this thesis deals with the economy. The variable of economic policy is perhaps the most visible criterion of success namely because it is easily quantifiable. It also reveals that economy has always been a priority among Conservatives. For Margaret Thatcher for instance, the Keynesianism of the postwar era had failed and should be abandoned. According to Thatcher, inflation was the problem to solve, not unemployment. The dichotomy between continuity and change will be analyzed not only in the public speeches of Margaret Thatcher but also the internal discussions of Conservatives. This plethora of definitions and opinions also concerns the legacy of the Iron Lady mainly through her successor, John Major, in addition to contemporary events such as the Brexit
Campain, Marie. "La genèse du Partenariat oriental : les élites polonaises et la politique étrangère européenne." Phd thesis, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00541221.
Full textBrennan, Audrey. "Primaries : a dress rehearsal for the election? : analyzing the conservative party of Canada's 2016-2017 leadership primary." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/32540.
Full textPrimaries: A Dress Rehearsal for the General Election? Since the selection of party leaders in a decentralized manner is a recent phenomenon in Canada, how is this new selection procedure different from an election campaign? This project is a study of a current case, the leadership selection of the Conservative Party of Canada. The research question is: How do the rules of the Conservative Party of Canada’s 2016-2017 leadership race influence the electoral prospect of the party? It is answered using an analysis of media content, data from social networks, and semistructured interviews. Michels’ (1915c) Iron Law of Oligarchy suggests that due to the lack of interests of voters, parties have centered their increasingly complex organizations around leaders. Three components lead to the oligarchization of political parties in democracies: the psychology of candidates; the need for organization; and the psychology of the masses (Michels, 1915c, 516). This project updates and tests the Iron Law. The Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership campaign is not a dress rehearsal for the general election. This leadership primary is more like an audition. It is about choosing who will be the key players at the election, no dress rehearsal needed. It is about setting the scene, writing the plot and choosing who will lead the party at the dress rehearsal. Which will really begin during the policy convention that follows the leadership selection in the summer of 2018.