Politics as leadership revised edition / Robert C. Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1918-2010.

Series:

Paul Anthony Brick lectures.

Paul Anthony Brick Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Authority.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages).

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert C.Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other.Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership, Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this perspective than from the more familiar stance of the exercise of power.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. The Essence of Politics: Two Views

The Power School

The Leadership Approach

Leadership as Activity

Leaders and History

2. The Process of Political Leadership

Signalizing

The Role of Government

Defining Political Situations

Mobilizing Support

Leadership and Democracy

3. Leadership through Social Movements

Causes of Nondefinition

How Movements Arise

Leadership for Reform

Revolutionary Leadership

4. Leadership and the Human Situation

The Crisis Syndrome

Leadership as Antileadership

The Party of Humanity

Toward Specieshood

A Platonic Conclusion

Epilogue, 1995

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8262-6236-8

OCLC:

966803151