Robert C. Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical
look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other.
Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership,
Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this
perspective than from the more familiar stance of the exercise of
power. He maintains leaders must define collective problems,
prescribe actions or policies, and finally seek support for their
diagnoses and policy prescriptions.
Tucker contends that political science must take account not
only of leadership by those in state authority, but also of
sociopolitical movements for change as vehicles of attempted
leadership of political communities. Dividing such movements into
those for reform and those for revolution, he illustrates this
distinction with examples, including Martin Luther King Jr. as a
reform leader and Lenin as a revolutionary one.
Finally, Tucker raises a central question of his study: how can
leadership save humankind from itself in the troubled world of
today? In an insightful and moving discussion of what he calls the
"crisis syndrome," Tucker analyzes problems such as population
growth, resource depletion, and environmental degradation with
respect to leadership. He argues that the current political process
has focused on the immediate present while ignoring crises with
far-reaching implications that require tough solutions.
In the epilogue to this revised edition, Tucker draws on his
expertise as a Russian specialist, extending the book's discussion
of leadership by viewing Mikhail Gorbachev as a reform leader in
Soviet Russia and Boris Yeltsin as a post-Soviet Russian leader.
Tucker also readdresses the "crisis syndrome" by examining leaders'
responses in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Tucker's incisive reasoning, original insights, and commentary
on the theory and practice of politics should make this revised
edition of Politics as Leadership equally valuable and fascinating
for experts in the field of political science and for concerned
citizens.
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