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The modern prince : what leaders need to know now / Carnes Lord.
LIBRA JC330.3 .L67 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lord, Carnes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this penetrating work, an eminent political scientist offers a provocative treatise on the requirements of leadership in the modern world.
- Contents:
- Why leadership is still possible
- Why leadership is still necessary
- Leadership and statecraft
- On states
- On regimes
- Elites and how to manage them
- Modern founders
- Executive power and constitutional democracy
- Democracy without leaders
- Autocratic democracy
- What goals leaders pursue
- What tools leaders have available
- Administration
- Law
- Education and culture
- Economics
- Diplomacy
- Force
- Intelligence
- Communication
- On strategy
- On crisis management
- Advice and decision
- Leadership and politics
- Why leadership depends on the times
- Exhortation to preserve democracy from the barbarians.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300100078
- OCLC:
- 51818532
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