Inventing leadership
Subtitle: the challenge of democracy
By: J. Thomas Wren
Series: New horizons in leadership studies
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781840649550
Subjects: Philosophy; Political leadership
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The classical ideal of the leader; title: Plato; title: Thomas Aquinas; title: Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories; title: The classical ideal in republics; title: Aristotle; title: Niccolo Machiavelli; title: James Harrington; title: The implicit theories of the classical republicans; title: Toward a new implicit theory and a new fiction; title: A new conception of the people. The emergence of 'the people'; title: 'The people' as a protean fiction; title: The implicit leadership theories of popular sovereignty; title: Two fictions in need of a third fiction; title: A new social relation; title: The emergence of the fiction of leadership; title: The implicit leadership theories of the leadership relation; title: Inventing the fiction of leadership; title: The challenge of democracy; title: A republican prelude; title: The transition to democracy; title: The implicit leadership theories of democracy; title: Introducing the fictions of leadership; title: James Madison and the classical ideal; title: Madison's core values; title: Challenge #1 : the threat to the common good from the people; title: Challenge #2 : the threat to the common good from the leaders; title: Challenge #3 : the threat to the common good from the people and their leaders; title: The implicit leadership theories of James Madison; title: Alexis de Tocqueville and the challenges of democracy; title: The nature of democracy; title: The problems of democracy; title: Solutions for the problems of democracy; title: The implicit leadership theories of Alexis de Tocqueville; title: Alexis de Tocqueville and the fiction of leadership; title: Inventing liberalism; title: John Locke; title: John Stuart Mill; title: John Rawls; title: Robert Nozick; title: Two liberalisms; title: Conclusion : the liberal fiction in leadership terms; title: Inventing communitarianism; title: Aristotle; title: G.W.F. Hegel; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Modern communitarian thought; title: A new fiction of leadership; title: What is the leadership challenge?; title: What is the end or purpose of leadership?; title: What is the epistemology of leadership?; title: How is the matter of diversity and minority interests addressed?; title: What is the perception of human nature?; title: Are the people capable of governing?; title: What is the role of the people?; title: What is the role of the leader?; title: How should leaders and the people interact?; title: What institutions and processes are needed?; title: Let the games begin.