Who's the Boss, Leadership and Democratic Culture in America (Heftet (myke permer))

Is the present popularity of leadership studies an echo of the status of the U.S. as the leader of the free world, or is it hype created by smart entrepreneurs? Have current leadership concepts emerged from the democratic environment in America or do they reflect a globalist and timeless approach? How do leadership studies reflect national values, such as individualism and competition, success, commonly associated with American culture? An international group of scholars of American society seeks to answer these questions in this volume. They critically examine the terminology and the explanatory power of various leadership concepts. These essays show that the promises of 'good' leadership to protect democratic processes against political and commercial exploitation are often too optimistic. Examples from military academies, state politics, marginal groups, and African American politicians dampen high expectations for new visionary political leadership in the United States.

Between Bosses and Boosters: An Introduction to "Leadership" as an American Studies Subject; Is Hegemony Leadership?; Market or Democratic Models: Competing Conceptions of American Political Leadership; Duty, Honour, Country: Military Academies, Leadership, and American Culture; California Governors and the Obstacles to Transformative Leadership; Leadership in the Left Lane: Directions and Styles in the Communist Party of the United States, 1932-1957; The Evolution of the African American Leadership Class: Gunnar Myrdal's Typology and the Twenty-first Century; The Dual Disadvantage of Race: Black Mayors after the Civil Rights Movement; Exhibiting Leadership: Definitions and Displays of Leadership in Presidential and Other Museums; Reclaiming Leadership: The Role of the Humanities in Contemporary Academia; The West Wing and Intellect in American Leadership; From Unrivalled Hegemony to Disputed Leadership: The United States and the Developing World in the Early Cold War; The Export of an American Concept of Leadership: The World as Seen through the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Leader Program; A Christian Bilderberg Group? The International Christian Leadership, 1948-1968; The Paradox of American Economic Leadership.