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Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism

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This book sheds new light on the theory of political leadership and its importance for understanding the contemporary conflict between liberal democracy and the new authoritarianism. Jerzy J. Wiatr...
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  • 17 January 2022
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This book sheds light on the theory of political leadership, which is still an under-researched field of political science. It is related to the philosophical argument about determinism versus activism and helps to understand the basic conflict of the 21st century between liberal democracy and new authoritarianism. The book looks at Max Weber's typology of political rule and his concept of the ethics of responsibility, which are key to the theory of leadership. The author shows that the unfinished contest between democracy and new authoritarianism in the 21st century confirms the importance of leadership in old and new democracies as well as in the neo-authoritarian regimes and calls for a new type of political leaders.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 203
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Imprint: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Publication Date: 17 January 2022
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783847425380
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
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Jerzy J. Wiatr is Professor emeritus at the University of Warsaw and Honorary Rector of the European School of Law and Administration in Warsaw, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium.

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One: The essence of leadership
1. Philosophy of history: determinism versus activism
2. Leader’s personality: a psychological interpretation
3. Ethics of leadership

Chapter Two: A typology of political leadership
1. Max Weber’s pure types of legitimate rule
2. Controversies over the charismatic leadership

Chapter Three: Democracy and political leadership
1. Leaders and citizens in democracy
2. Presidential leadership
3. Leadership in parliamentary systems
4. Democratic leadership and party systems
5. Conservatives, reformers, and nation-builders

Chapter Four: Autocratic Leaders in Modern Times
1. A typology of non-democratic regimes
2. The men on horseback
3. Totalitarian and authoritarian party leaders

Chapter Five: Political Leadership in the Transition to Democracy
1. Alternative explanations of transition
2. Modes of extrication from non-democratic regimes
3. Different outcomes: democracies or renewed authoritarianism
4. Democratic consolidation: the importance of leadership
5. Dilemmas of transformative leadership

Chapter Six: New authoritarianism and political leadership
1. Populist nationalism in the 21st century
2. New and old authoritarianism: similarities and differences
3. New authoritarianism and post-communist heritage
4. Political leaders in new authoritarianism

Conclusions
References
Keywords
About the author