Leadership in Democracy

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part I Theory......Page 22
The quasi-economic aspect of his theory of democracy......Page 24
The leadership dimension of his theory......Page 27
Downs and Schattschneider......Page 32
Competition for leadership between elections and within government......Page 38
The (missing) analogy with entrepreneurship......Page 45
Entrepreneurship and its pioneering political equivalent......Page 50
Adaptive leadership versus entrepreneurial-style pioneering......Page 55
Towards a leadership-evolutionary model of democratic politics......Page 63
Entrepreneurs and capitalist evolution......Page 68
Political evolution and historical selection......Page 70
Political development and evolution......Page 73
Path dependency, rigidity and the need for pioneering leadership......Page 77
Developing the leadership-evolutionary model......Page 85
The LE model of the democratic political system......Page 92
Imperfect competition and entrepreneurial democracy......Page 98
Assessing the prevalence of pioneering leadership in the 1960s–90s......Page 103
Part II Assessing Entrepreneurial-Style, Pioneering Leadership......Page 106
Parties as innovative electoral tools......Page 108
Looking for innovative election issues......Page 110
The life cycle of issues......Page 116
Ways of issue innovating: (1) heresthetical and (2) reframing......Page 117
6 Governmental (Executive) Pioneering......Page 121
The British Prime Minister as potential pioneer......Page 122
Looking for pioneering PMs: Margaret Thatcher......Page 129
Looking for pioneering PMs: Tony Blair......Page 137
7 Presidential Pioneering and Foreign Policy......Page 145
Presidential leadership – Neustadt’s model......Page 147
Presidential prestige and foreign policy......Page 153
Roosevelt’s pioneering foreign policy......Page 156
Reagan’s foreign-policy pioneering......Page 164
A congress of individuals......Page 171
Selling bills: introducing/promoting legislation......Page 173
Careerist leadership in Congress......Page 175
Pioneering leadership in Congress......Page 179
The entrepreneurial-like administrative leader......Page 183
Very public and autonomous pioneering administrators......Page 185
Checking out pioneering credentials......Page 192
Assessing the prevalence of administrative pioneering......Page 196
10 Policy Advocates’ Pioneering......Page 202
Policy (advocate) entrepreneurs in action......Page 203
Nader and others......Page 206
Assessing their fate: punctuated equilibrium......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 215
Appendix: Schumpeter on Development (Evolution)......Page 221
Notes......Page 226
References......Page 261
Index......Page 272