state leadership
Those who govern
State leadership refers to those who hold governing authority within a state—governors, legislators, or agency heads at the subnational level.
In American politics, it typically means the executive branch of a U.S. state: The governor called a meeting of state leadership to discuss the budget crisis.
The phrase can also refer more broadly to a nation's ruling figures or governing style: The country's state leadership has grown increasingly authoritarian.
- presidentElected leader of nation
- prime ministerLeader of a parliamentary state
- bully pulpitProminent position for advocacy
- policy-makingFormulating official guidelines
- democracyRule by the people
integrity · governor · chain of command · public administration · national security · federalism · legislation · cabinet · cabinet reshuffle · diplomacy · checks and balances · crisis management · decisiveness · accountability · statecraft · transparency · executive orders · term limits
- state governmentgovernor's office, legislature, lieutenant governor, attorney general, departments
state leadershipcitizenry
Body of inhabitants
the people · the masses · common people · rank and file · subjects
state leadershipanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
statelessness · leaderlessness · failed state · power vacuum · self-governance
state leadershipcorporate leadership
Executives guiding a firm
business leadership · religious leadership · community leadership
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