
Dispersed Democratic Leadership
Origins, Dynamics, and Implications
Oxford University Press
Published on 28. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-19-960446-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic that has been relatively neglected by a political science literature dominated by studies of executive power. Individual chapters investigate the many loci of leadership found in modern democracies, some ancient and some newly emergent, some institutionalized and some ad hoc, some self-consciously political and some avowedly apolitical. In assessing the effects of leadership dispersal, the book argues that understanding how policies are shaped in a democracy requires balancing the usual person-centred approach with one that is more contextual, institutional, and relational. The public leadership role of people in business, the media, non-governmental organizations, bureaucracy, law, showbusiness and many other areas are instructively investigated to enhance our appreciation of the complexity of democratic political systems and to allow us to assess the effects, both good and ill, of democratic leadership dispersal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-960446-3 (9780199604463)
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John Kane | Haig Patapan | Paul 't Hart
Dispersed Democratic Leadership
Origins, Dynamics, and Implications
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Persons
John Kane's research interests include political theory, political leadership, foreign policy and public management. He is the author of numerous articles in books and international journals, co-editor of Rethinking Australian Citizenship (Cambridge UP) and Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan), and author of The Politics of Moral Capital (Cambridge UP) and Between Virtue and Power: The Persistent Moral Dilemma of US Foreign Policy (Yale UP). He is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia.
Haig Patapan's research interests include political theory, political leadership and democratic governance. He is the author of Judging Democracy (Cambridge UP; 2000) and Machiavelli in Love: the Modern Politics of Love and Fear (Lexington; 2006); and coeditor of Globalization and Equality (Routledge; 2004); Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific (UNSW Press; 2005); and most recently, Dissident Democrats: the Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia (Palgrave; 2008). He is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia.
Paul 't Hart's research interests include public leadership, political psychology, crisis management, and policy analysis. He has (co)authored or (co)edited 25 books, including Groupthink in Government (Johns Hopkins UP 1994), Beyond Groupthink (Michigan UP 1997), Success and Failure in Public Governance (Elgar 2001), The Politics of Crisis Management (Cambridge Up 2005) and Governing After Crisis (Cambridge UP 2005).He is professor of political science at Australian National University and professor of public administration at Utrecht University.
Haig Patapan's research interests include political theory, political leadership and democratic governance. He is the author of Judging Democracy (Cambridge UP; 2000) and Machiavelli in Love: the Modern Politics of Love and Fear (Lexington; 2006); and coeditor of Globalization and Equality (Routledge; 2004); Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific (UNSW Press; 2005); and most recently, Dissident Democrats: the Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia (Palgrave; 2008). He is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia.
Paul 't Hart's research interests include public leadership, political psychology, crisis management, and policy analysis. He has (co)authored or (co)edited 25 books, including Groupthink in Government (Johns Hopkins UP 1994), Beyond Groupthink (Michigan UP 1997), Success and Failure in Public Governance (Elgar 2001), The Politics of Crisis Management (Cambridge Up 2005) and Governing After Crisis (Cambridge UP 2005).He is professor of political science at Australian National University and professor of public administration at Utrecht University.
Editor
Professor, Department of Politics and Public Policy; Deputy Director, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University
Professor Haig Patapan, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University
Professor of Political Science, Australian National University & professor of public administration, Utrecht University
Content
1. Dispersed democratic leadership ; 2. Evolving executive authority in Anglo-American democracy: coping with leadership dispersal ; 3. Incomplete empowerment: female cabinet ministers in Anglo-American systems ; 4. Parliamentary oppositional leadership ; 5. Populist leadership ; 6. Monarchy, political leadership, and democracy: on the importance of neutral institutions ; 7. The democratic legitimacy of bureaucratic leadership ; 8. Judicial leadership ; 9. Leadership in news institutions ; 10. The challenges of business leadership: CEOs and the case of the Business Council of Australia ; 11. The contingencies of non-profit leadership ; 12. Leadership of the modern university ; 13. Leadership of international organizations ; 14. Leadership by the famous: celebrity as political capital ; 15. Life after political death: the fate of leaders after leaving high office ; 16. Dispersed democratic leadership revisited