P. Brooker 
Leadership in Democracy 
From Adaptive Response to Entrepreneurial Initiative

Leadership in Democracy develops and applies an innovative leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon Schumpeter’s famous theories of democracy and economic entrepreneurship. The new theory is applied to the US and British democracies in an assessment of how much entrepreneurial-style, pioneering leadership occurred from the 1960s to the 1990s in the electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative and policy-advocacy sectors of democracies. The assessment leads on to a wide-ranging appraisal of the prospects for ‘entrepreneurial’ democracy in the twenty-first century.

Table of Content

Preface Introduction PART I: FROM ADAPTIVE TO PIONEERING LEADERSHIP Schumpeter’s Leadership Model of Democracy Pioneering and Adaptive Leadership From Economic to Political Evolution Pioneering Leadership as Political Entrepreneurship The Leadership-Evolutionary Model PART II: ASSESSING ENTREPRENEURIAL-STYLE, PIONEERING LEADERSHIP Electoral Governmental (Executive) Legislative Administrative Policy Advocates Conclusion Appendix: Schumpeter on Development (Evolution) Notes References

About the author

PAUL BROOKER is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Victoria University of Wellington and is the author of several books on dictators and non-democratic regimes.