Leadership in democracy : from adaptive response to entrepreneurial initiative /
Paul Brooker.
- viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schumpeter's leadership model of democracy -- Pioneering and adaptive leadership -- From economic to political evolution -- Pioneering leadership as political entrepreneurship -- The leadership-evolutionary model -- Electoral pioneering -- Governmental (executive) pioneering -- Legislative pioneering -- Administrative pioneering -- Policy advocates' pioneering -- Conclusion - two future scenarios -- Schumpeter on development (evolution). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. App.
"Leadership in Democracy develops and applied an innovative leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon Schumpeter's famous theories of democracy and economic entrepreneurship. The first part of the book develops a Schumpeterian theory of democracy that views leadership as an essential component of democracy and its evolutionary political processes. Leadership in democracy normally involves only an adaptive, incremental response to change but it can also take the form of an adaptive innovation, a creative response, or a pioneering leader's entrepreneurial-style initiative and innovation. In the second part of the book this theory is applied to the US and British democracies in an assessment of how much entrepreneurial-style, pioneering leadership occurred during the 1960s-1990s in the electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative and policy-advocacy sectors of democracies. The assessment leads on to a wide-ranging appraisal of the prospects for 'entrepreneurial' democracy in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
140399403X 9781403994035
2005296788
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 1883-1950. Capitalism, socialism, and democracy.