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  • The Democratic Leader: How Democracy Defines, Empowers, and Limits its Leaders

    Author(s)
    Kane, J
    Patapan, H
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Patapan, Haig
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    The Democratic Leader argues that leaders occupy an anomalous place in democracies. The foundational principle of democracy -- popular sovereignty -- implies that the people must rule, yet the people can rule only by granting a trust of authority to individual leaders. This produces a tension that results in a unique type of leadership. The democratic leader must perpetually navigate powerful and contending forces of public cynicism, founded on the suspicion that all leaders are self-interested power-seekers, and of public idealism, founded on the perennial hope that good leaders will act nobly in serving the people. The ...
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    The Democratic Leader argues that leaders occupy an anomalous place in democracies. The foundational principle of democracy -- popular sovereignty -- implies that the people must rule, yet the people can rule only by granting a trust of authority to individual leaders. This produces a tension that results in a unique type of leadership. The democratic leader must perpetually navigate powerful and contending forces of public cynicism, founded on the suspicion that all leaders are self-interested power-seekers, and of public idealism, founded on the perennial hope that good leaders will act nobly in serving the people. The Democratic Leader suggests that the inherent difficulty of this form of leadership cannot be resolved, and indeed is necessary for securing the strength and stability of democracy.
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    Publisher URI
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-democratic-leader-9780199650477
    Copyright Statement
    Self-archiving is not yet supported by this publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author(s) for more information.
    Subject
    Political theory and political philosophy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50159
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