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Treasons, stratagems, and spoils : how leaders make practical use of values and beliefs / F.G. Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, F. G. (Frederick George)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 224 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Part 1 How to Understand: The Basics
- 1 The Aroma of Politics 3
- The Public Weal, Private Interests, and Realpolitik 3
- Reason, Emotion, and Presuppositions 7
- The Inherent Instability of Politics and Its Opposite 12
- 2 The Toolbox 17
- The Comparative Method: Universals and Thick Description 17
- Models: Structure, Context, and Process 23
- Models: Agency and Strategy 28
- A Formula 31
- Part 2 How to Lead: Leaders and Followers
- 3 Decisions and Legitimacy 39
- What Leaders Do 39
- All Chiefs and No Indians (and Vice Versa) 46
- 4 Controlling Followers 53
- One of Us or Far Above Us? 53
- Entourage 60
- The People's Friend 65
- 5 Politicians and Bureaucrats 69
- Civil Servants 69
- Stirring Things Up 74
- 6 In Search of Trust 81
- "Intuition" and Calculation 81
- Strategies for Coping with Cultural Diversity 84
- What Gandhi Did with Culture 89
- A Kind of Dishonesty? 93
- Part 3 How to Win: Leaders and Opponents
- 7 Can't We All Get Along? 99
- Evaluating Struggle 99
- Strategies and Human Nature 102
- 8 Three Types of Rule 115
- Institutional Frameworks and Rule-types 116
- Rule-types as Weapons 120
- Contradictory Normative Frameworks 125
- 9 Manipulation 129
- Information, Brokers, and Consensus 129
- Johnson and the Congress 134
- Consensus-making Strategies 139
- Conditions for Consensus-making 142
- 10 Pragmatism 145
- "A Remarkable Man" 145
- Lies, Graft, and Money 151
- The Significance of Pragmatism 156
- 11 Recalcitrance and Factions 161
- Svejkism 162
- Rough Music 167
- Factions 172
- 12 Revolution 179
- Moving the Boundaries 180
- The Fuzziness of Revolutions 187
- Stopping Short of Chaos 190
- Conclusion: The Normative Facade 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813339049
- 0813339413
- OCLC:
- 45841615
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