Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: The essence of leadership
1. Philosophy of history: determinism versus activism
2. Leader's personality: a psychological interpretation
3. Ethics of leadership
Chapter Two: A typology of political leadership
1. Max Weber's pure types of legitimate rule

2. Controversies over the charismatic leadership
Chapter Three: Democracy and political leadership
1. Leaders and citizens in democracy
2. Presidential leadership
3. Leadership in parliamentary systems
4. Democratic leadership and party systems

5. Conservatives, reformers, and nation-builders
Chapter Four: Autocratic Leaders in Modern Times
1. A typology of non-democratic regimes
2. The men on horseback

3. Totalitarian and authoritarian party leaders
Chapter Five: Political Leadership in the Transition to Democracy

1. Alternative explanations of transition

2. Modes of extrication from non-democratic regimes

3. Different outcomes: democracies or renewedauthoritarianism

4. Democratic consolidation: the importance of leadership
5. Dilemmas of transformative leadership

Chapter Six: New authoritarianism and political leadership
1. Populist nationalism in the 21st century

2. New and old authoritarianism: similarities and differences
3. New authoritarianism and post-communist heritage
4. Political leaders in new authoritarianism
Conclusions
References .
Keywords

About the author

Jerzy J. Wiatr is Professor emeritus at the University of Warsaw and Honorary Rector of the European School of Law and Administration in Warsaw, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium.