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Uniting Mississippi - Democracy and Leadership in the South (Hardcover)
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Uniting Mississippi - Democracy and Leadership in the South (Hardcover)
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Uniting Mississippi applies a new, philosophically informed theory
of democratic leadership to Mississippi's challenges. Governor
William F. Winter has written a foreword for the book, supporting
its proposals. The book begins with an examination of Mississippi's
apparent Catch-22, namely the difficulty of addressing problems of
poverty without fixing issues in education first, and vice versa.
These difficulties can be overcome if we look at their common
roots, argues Eric Thomas Weber, and if we practice virtuous
democratic leadership. Since the approach to addressing poverty has
for so long been unsuccessful, Weber reframes the problem. The
challenges of educational failure reveal the extent to which there
is a caste system of schooling. Certain groups of people are
trapped in schools that are underfunded and failing. The ideals of
democracy reject hierarchies of citizenship, and thus, the author
contends, these ideals are truly tested in Mississippi. Weber
offers theories of effective leadership in general and of
democratic leadership in particular to show how Mississippi's
challenges could be addressed with the guidance of common values.
The book draws on insights from classical and contemporary
philosophical outlooks on leadership, which highlight four key
social virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. Within
this framework, the author approaches Mississippi's problems of
poverty and educational frustration in a novel way that is
applicable in and beyond the rural South. Weber brings to bear each
of the virtues of democratic leadership on particular problems,
with some overarching lessons and values to advance. The author's
editorial essays are included in the appendix as examples of
engaging in public inquiry for the sake of democratic leadership.
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