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The Democratic Leader
John KaneHaig Patapan
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How Democracy Defines, Empowers and Limits Its Leaders
出版OUP Oxford, 2012-03-29
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political Process / Political PartiesPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Process / Leadership
ISBN01996504709780199650477
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LFfUUoTEhYgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Democratic Leader argues that leaders occupy a unique 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, specifically, democratic leadership. Democratic leaders, once they have the confidence and authority of the people, are very powerful because they rule through consent and not through fear. Yet in many respects they are the weakest of leaders, because democrats distrust leaders and impose on them a range of far-reaching constraints--legal, moral and political. The democratic leader must perpetually navigate the powerful and contending forces of public cynicism, founded in the suspicion that all leaders are self-interested power-seekers, and of public idealism, founded in a perennial hope that good leaders will act nobly by sacrificing themselves for 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.