Bøger af Paul Brooker

Rational leadership inspires confidence by capably using appropriate rational means, as described in the first edition of Rational Leadership. Now a second, much enlarged edition has added eight new chapters and has looked at redevelopment as well as development

Introduction - Defiance As a Stabilising Influence - Communist China - Communist Vietnam - Communist North Korea - Communist Cuba - Baathist Syria - Baathist Iraq - Qadhafi's Libya - Khomeinist Iran - Conclusion: Explanations and Survival Strategies - Appendix: Baathist Ideology and Structure - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however, remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral, governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and British democracies.

Part One presents examples of the party type (the party-state regime), Part Two examples of the military type (the military-party regime) and Part Three examples of transformations from one type to the other.

A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes, their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance. The third edition covers the rise of new forms of disguised dictatorship and semi-competitive democracy in the 21st Century.