Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: Comparative and Historical Perspectives

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	Jerzy J. Wiatr: Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism. Comparative and Historical Perspectives
	Contents
	Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: The essence of leadership
	1. Philosophy of history: determinism versus activism
	2. Leader’s personality: a psychological interpretation
	3. Ethics of leadership
Chapter Two: A typology of political leadership
	1. Max Weber’s pure types of legitimate rule
	2. Controversies over the charismatic leadership
Chapter Three: Democracy and political leadership
	1. Leaders and citizens in democracy
	2. Presidential leadership
	3. Leadership in parliamentary systems
	4. Democratic leadership and party systems
	5. Conservatives, reformers, and nation-builders
Chapter Four: Autocratic leaders in modern times
	1. A typology of non-democratic regimes
	2. The men on horseback
	3. Totalitarian and authoritarian party leaders
Chapter Five: Political leadership in the transition to democracy
	1. Alternative explanations of transition
	2. Modes of extrication from non-democratic regimes
	3. Different outcomes: democracies or renewed authoritarianism
	4. Democratic consolidation: the importance of leadership
	5. Dilemmas of transformative leadership
Chapter Six: New authoritarianism and political leadership
	1. Nationalist populism in the 21st century
		a) Russia
		b) Belarus
		c) Turkey
		d) Hungary
		e) Slovakia, Serbia and Croatia
		f) Poland
	2. New and old authoritarianism: similaritiesand differences
	3. New authoritarianism and the post-communist heritage
	4. Political leadership in new authoritarianism
Conclusions
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