The Democratic Leader: How Democracy Defines, Empowers, and Limits Its Leaders

by Haig Patapan and John Kane

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199650470
• ISBN13: 9780199650477
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"