Government and Leadership

Government and Leadership is reserved for stories in Politics and Power where executive decision making, presidential authority or prime ministerial leadership is the central analytical issue. The analytical frame places monarchic institutions, ministerial reshuffles and leadership transitions against decision-making power, institutional change, domestic legitimacy and regional political leverage, adding regional context only where it changes the interpretation. The scope remains government and leadership, with Elections and Political Parties and Diplomacy and Foreign Policy used only to explain direct overlap.