Leadership in Democracy

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ISBN: 9780230248151 | 0230248152
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2010

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This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however, remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral, governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and British democracies.

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Theory
Schumpeter's Leadership Model of Democracy	p. 13
The quasi-economic aspect of his theory of democracy	p. 13
The leadership dimension of his theory	p. 16
Downs and Schattschneider	p. 21
Competition for leadership between elections and within government	p. 27
Pioneering and Adaptive Leadership	p. 34
The (missing) analogy with entrepreneurship	p. 34
Entrepreneurship and its pioneering political equivalent	p. 39
Adaptive leadership versus entrepreneurial-style pioneering	p. 44
Towards a leadership-evolutionary model of democratic politics	p. 52
From Economic to Political Evolution	p. 57
Entrepreneurs and capitalist evolution	p. 57
Political evolution and historical selection	p. 59
Political development and evolution	p. 62
Path dependency, rigidity and the need for pioneering leadership	p. 66
The Leadership-Evolutionary Model	p. 74
Developing the leadership-evolutionary model	p. 74
The LE model of the democratic political system	p. 81
Imperfect competition and entrepreneurial democracy	p. 87
Assessing the prevalence of pioneering leadership in the 1960s-90s	p. 92
Assessing Entrepreneurial-Style, Pioneering Leadership
Electoral Pioneering	p. 97
Parties as innovative electoral tools	p. 97
Looking for innovative election issues	p. 99
The life cycle of issues Ways of issue innovating: (1) heresthetical and (2) reframing	p. 105
Governmental (Executive) Pioneering	p. 110
The British Prime Minister as potential pioneer	p. 111
Looking for pioneering PMs: Margaret Thatcher	p. 118
Looking for pioneering PMs: Tony Blair	p. 126
Presidential Pioneering and Foreign Policy	p. 134
Presidential leadership - Neustadt's model	p. 136
Presidential prestige and foreign policy	p. 142
Roosevelt's pioneering foreign policy	p. 145
Reagan's foreign-policy pioneering	p. 153
Legislative Pioneering	p. 160
A congress of individuals	p. 160
Selling bills: introducing/promoting legislation	p. 162
Careerist leadership in Congress	p. 164
Pioneering leadership in Congress	p. 168
Administrative Pioneering	p. 172
The entrepreneurial-like administrative leader	p. 172
Very public and autonomous pioneering administrators	p. 174
Checking out pioneering credentials	p. 181
Assessing the prevalence of administrative Pioneering	p. 185
Policy Advocates' Pioneering	p. 191
Policy (advocate) entrepreneurs in action	p. 192
Nader and others	p. 195
Assessing their fate: punctuated equilibrium	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 204
Appendix: Schumpeter on Development (Evolution)	p. 210
Notes	p. 215
References	p. 250
Index	p. 261
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