Establishing a Framework for Political Leadership

Professor David Howarth, former MP for Cambridge and Professor of Law and Public Policy, is the perfect Chairman to help set the framework for the symposium's first panel to debate the criteria for assessing political leadership.

Dr Toby James of the University of East Anglia, the co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Research Group on Political Leadership, will get us started by presenting the framework used in the books he has just edited (with Charles Clarke) on British Conservative and Labour Party Leaders.

His ideas are then discussed by Dr Peter Sloman, Professor Georgia Sorenson and Dr Kristina Spohr, who bring their expert UK, US and European research to the debate.

A collaboration between the Churchill Archives Centre, The Møller Centre, Cambridge University Department of Politics and International Studies and the Faculty of History. Friday 13 November 2015.

This one day symposium looked at the challenge of understanding, assessing and perhaps improving political leadership. It seeks to bring together historians and political scientists with politicians and practitioners in a multidisciplinary and cross party approach.

What better venue for such a discussion than Churchill College, founded as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston, and the home to two centres for the study of leadership — the Churchill Archives Centre, which houses the personal papers of prominent political leaders of the recent past; and the Møller Centre, which looks to inspire and develop the leaders of today and tomorrow.

For more information visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/political-leadership

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