Simply through personal experiences and conversations with other citizens, I understand his conclusion that citizens do recognize how they deviate from either wanting delegates or trustees depending on the situation, while not supporting either type if the official’s rational is insupportable. I merely speculate how these papers would fare in analyzing other democracies around the world. How does culture and the maturity level of democracy in a state influence the citizens’ relationship with their elected officials? Perhaps a collectivist and elder-respect culture would have more leaders while the opposite types of cultures would have more followership. My questioning illustrates the complexity of analyzing the causes and effects of different types of leadership and their relationship to different types of citizenry. There remains a myriad of factors that goes beyond politics and political stances. Culture, social class, ethnicity and other factors are elements that need to be included in the analysis of leadership in a
Simply through personal experiences and conversations with other citizens, I understand his conclusion that citizens do recognize how they deviate from either wanting delegates or trustees depending on the situation, while not supporting either type if the official’s rational is insupportable. I merely speculate how these papers would fare in analyzing other democracies around the world. How does culture and the maturity level of democracy in a state influence the citizens’ relationship with their elected officials? Perhaps a collectivist and elder-respect culture would have more leaders while the opposite types of cultures would have more followership. My questioning illustrates the complexity of analyzing the causes and effects of different types of leadership and their relationship to different types of citizenry. There remains a myriad of factors that goes beyond politics and political stances. Culture, social class, ethnicity and other factors are elements that need to be included in the analysis of leadership in a