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The Democratic Leader - How Democracy Defines, Empowers and Limits its Leaders (Hardcover)
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The Democratic Leader - How Democracy Defines, Empowers and Limits its Leaders (Hardcover)
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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.
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