PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP-STYLE, ADVISORY SYSTEMS, AND POLICY-MAKING - CLINTON,BILL ADMINISTRATION AFTER 7 MONTHS

How does President Clinton's leadership style influence the nature of the White House and its organization ? This paper presents a framework that links leadership style to patterns of authority and coordination in advisory systems and explores how the early Clinton administration fits within this framework. In making judgments about Clinton and his advisers, the analysis builds from a personality profile of him done by the author as well as descriptions and observations by journalists and associates during the campaign, from the time he was governor of A rkansas, and during the first seven months of his presidency.