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It is difficult to remove the personal from the institutional. Agency and structural factors in the analysis of political leadership go hand in hand (Skowronek 1997). The interactionist framework combines the institutional resources available to a prime minister with the personal. Personal prime ministerial style can have an impact on the running of the private office, the policy agenda, advisory structures, the management of cabinet and collegial relationships. This and the next chapter, however, focus more specifically on aspects of personal prime ministerial resources.
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Bennister, M. (2012). Prime Ministers: Personal Capacity. In: Prime Ministers in Power. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378445_5
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