The Commonwealth Secretary-General: Limits of Leadership
The Commonwealth Secretary-General: Limits of Leadership
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英联邦秘书长：领导力的局限性
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1979
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M. Doxey
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M. Doxey
十多年来，英联邦已经有了自己的秘书处和秘书长，现在似乎是研究秘书长在联合体内所发挥的作用和他所能发挥的领导作用的时机。我一直认为，尽管英联邦有着独特的历史，但它现在是一个国际组织，可以在结构、规范和职能方面与其他组织进行有益的比较。1 .在评价英联邦秘书长职务时，人们可能会遇到英联邦特有的特点，但是，即使英联邦和其他机构之间的差异比毫无疑问存在的差异更为显著，在一个总的框架内审查它们以及相似之处似乎仍然是有益的。在任何可能的情况下，在现有理论工作的基础上发展新材料和新见解似乎也是可取的，在本文中，我使用了David Meyers在他对非洲统一组织（非统组织）秘书长的研究中提出的四部分框架，该框架反过来又借鉴了该领域知名学者的早期工作该框架提供了四个视角：1。办公室的法律制度方面。2. 办公人员可用的资源。3. 与现任者有关的特殊因素。4. 组织及其领导人面临的系统性因素。在继续之前，有两点需要说明。首先，在评估经济增长时，不同因素的权重问题上存在很多争论
T HE Commonwealth has now had its own Secretariat and SecretaryGeneral for more than a decade and the time seems opportune to make a study of the role played by the Secretary-General within the association and the leadership which he can exercise. It has been my contention that the Commonwealth, despite its unique history, is now an international organisation which can usefully be compared with others in respect of structure, norms and functions. 1 In assessing the Commonwealth SecretaryGeneralship, one would expect to encounter features peculiar to the Commonwealth, but even if the differences between the Commonwealth and other bodies were more striking than those which undoubtedly exist, it would still seem useful to review them, together with the similarities, in a general framework. Wherever possible, too, it seems desirable to build on existing theoretical work while developing new material and new insights, and in this paper I have used the four-part framework developed by David Meyers in his study of the Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) 2 which, in turn, drew on earlier work by well-known scholars in the field.3 This framework offers four perspectives: 1. Legal-institutional aspects of the office. 2. Resources available to the office-holder. 3. Idiosyncratic factors pertaining to the incumbent. 4. Systemic factors confronting the organisation and its head. Two points should be made before proceeding. First, there has been much debate over the weight to be ascribed to different factors in assessing the