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75 Cards in this Set
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Absolute rule by the one |
Autocracy |
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Rule by a small group |
Oligarchy |
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Rule by those selected by merit |
Meritocracy |
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Rule from the desk |
Bureaucracy |
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Rule by the old |
Gerontocracy |
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Rule by the moB |
Democracy |
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Sole producer of goods |
Monopoly |
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Sole buyer of goods |
Monopsony |
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Small group of sellers |
Oligopoly |
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Small group of buyers |
Monopsony |
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Categorizing two or more variables without any scale |
Typology |
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Most controversially ranked president |
Reagan |
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Log cabin myth presidents |
Lincoln, Reagan |
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Best ranked presidents |
Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt |
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Worst ranked presidents |
Harding, Bunanchon, Grant |
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Contempt for those we deal with immediately, later realize greatness. |
Familiarity Contempt |
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Transitional, Transactional, Transformational |
Example of a typology |
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Two types of elites |
Those at top, those almost there |
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7 out of first 39 presidents were |
Lowermiddle economic class |
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87% of americans are this |
Lowermiddle |
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Who is more tolerant of Elites |
Canadians > Americans |
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Schools of politics |
Leadership versus power. |
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Goal of power school |
Good leadership is maximizing power |
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Goal of Leadership school |
Leadership as a means to an end for the greater good. |
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Tucker is a member of what school |
Leadership |
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Tucker's typology of leadership |
Constituted versus non-constituted leader |
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Constituted leader |
Does not necessarily move people. Office holder |
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Non-constituted leader |
Institutes change, not necessarily office holder |
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3 key leadership principles |
1. Diagnose problem 2. Prescribe course of action 3. Mobilize to end goal |
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Tucker believes that leaders |
Shape history |
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Best government rules through rites, tradition, and uniformity. |
Confucius |
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Sense of duty in those who are lead |
Confucius |
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Good leaders lead through example of good moral force |
Confucius |
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"Heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" |
Plato |
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Philosopher king |
Plato |
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All power constrained in binding legal code, laws, representing duties and rights of the ruled |
Plato |
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Looked at what happened to people to make them bad leaders |
Plutarch |
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Roman emperor that lamented being a warlord, wanted to be a philosopher |
Aurelius |
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Best leaders would appeal to followers to lead them |
Aurelius |
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Followers are rational |
Aurelius |
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"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command" |
Machiavelli |
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Method for estimating intelligence of leader is to look at those around them |
Machiavelli |
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War of all against all |
Hobbes |
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Leadership is control of the natural chaos |
Hobbes |
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Any order > no order |
Hobbes |
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Liberalism / Capitalism |
Locke |
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Paternal, Political, despotical |
Locke |
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Best ruler preserves as much individual liberty as possible |
Locke |
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Mistaken belief that leaders have influence over a certain situation |
Leader attribution error |
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Assumed natural division of rulers/ruled |
Ancients |
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Power as a resource to be managed |
Modernists. |
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History is more or less the history of great men |
Carlyle |
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Rejected the great man theory |
Spencer |
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No individual can have an impact on history |
Spencer |
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Millions of people making decisions moving society as an aggregate |
Opposition to great man theory |
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Between Carlyle / Spenser |
James |
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Social evolution is the interaction of great individuals with environment |
James |
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Rational, traditional, and charismatic ground of leadership |
Weber |
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Resources allocated in a way that it is not possible to make anyone better without making someone worse off |
Pareto Optimality |
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80/20 Rule |
Pareto Principle |
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Smart, innovative, creative but unstable leaders no tradition |
Foxes |
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Dutiful, conservative, mediocre who value stability |
Lion |
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"A leader takes people where they want to go... A great leader takes people where they ought to be" |
Rosalynn Carter |
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What approaches to leadership don't work |
Short term, isolated --> seminars and conferences are money grabs |
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Founder of the power school |
Machiavelli |
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This person viewed cruelty and brute force as acceptable but only to preserve power |
Machiavelli |
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Hobbes preferred model of government |
Authoritarianism |
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Structure versus Agency |
Agency is ones ability to directly affect history through actions. Structure believes history is not directly related to specific leaders but to the environment in which they lead. |
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The group thirsts for obedience |
Freud |
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Blondel typology |
Distinguished leadership versus office holding |
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Iron law of Oligarchy |
Oligarchies always form within society, a small group of elites will always rise to the top. |
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Appealing to the interests/hopes/fears of the population |
Populism |
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Tuckers issue with the power school |
Power school cant explain leaders that operate with unconstituted influence such as Ghandi |
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Kellerman Thesis |
Social context has changed and thus the rise of the follower |
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Why do we follow |
Non-compliance can be costly Self-interest Stability Community |
