Author: Emmanuel Oghenebrorhie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462866433
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
This is the first of a two part series which outlines the real reasons rulers would not readily subscribe to giving up their positional power, authority and relevance. Only those who are honest and had occupied such positions would understand the plight of the acclaimed bad ruler whom citizens insist must quit. It is one of the most difficult things for the human nature to comprehend and agree to implement at his expense. All those clamouring for the replacement of the ruler know their heart-hidden reasons, above the tenable reasons they give and defend stoutly, for such insistence. Rather than rubbish them, rulers under pressure to quit or who have even quit should be pitied because they are living a nightmare every minute they spend outside the throne which they once enjoyed. Most times, ousted rulers feel better dead than alive to adjust to regular lifestyle in the same domain in which they once ruled and reigned. Enjoy a happy reading.
Rules for Rulers
Author: Arnold J. Meltsner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877226857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In this witty and contemporaneous essay, Arnold J. Meltsner, as a modern-day Machiavelli, offers advice to government and corporate leaders on the human pitfalls of seeking, evaluating, and using advice. Drawing examples mainly from the Oval Office and recent history, he examines the factors that affect decision making and proposes rules to help rulers maintain vigilance over their advisers and remain sensitive to the politics of personal influence and persuasion. Meltsner sees the advisory situation as dramatic, so he uses the metaphor of a play with four key scenes to describe the psychological and social context. Presenting numerous situations that arise during these scenes, Meltsner extrapolates about a half-dozen rules from each scene in this play. Specific, practical advice shapes his commentary: for example, "Keep the inner circle small ... Be careful about revealing your own preferences ... Recognize partial views including your own ... Avoid public protest resignations." In addition to the ruler-adviser relationship, the author discusses secrecy and leaks, the structure within which rulers make decisions, and the various ways of calibrating advice. Using sometimes humorous and sometimes painful examples, Meltsner demonstrates that rulers' reactions to advice are often based on such factors as expertise, trust, prior performance, predilections, and consensus. "Rulers should temper their notion of the loyal adviser as an extension of themselves and not assume that they and their advisers are one." Local and national leaders, military generals, industrial managers, and CEOs rulers of all kinds can surely benefit from this advice. Author note: Arnold J. Meltsner is Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877226857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In this witty and contemporaneous essay, Arnold J. Meltsner, as a modern-day Machiavelli, offers advice to government and corporate leaders on the human pitfalls of seeking, evaluating, and using advice. Drawing examples mainly from the Oval Office and recent history, he examines the factors that affect decision making and proposes rules to help rulers maintain vigilance over their advisers and remain sensitive to the politics of personal influence and persuasion. Meltsner sees the advisory situation as dramatic, so he uses the metaphor of a play with four key scenes to describe the psychological and social context. Presenting numerous situations that arise during these scenes, Meltsner extrapolates about a half-dozen rules from each scene in this play. Specific, practical advice shapes his commentary: for example, "Keep the inner circle small ... Be careful about revealing your own preferences ... Recognize partial views including your own ... Avoid public protest resignations." In addition to the ruler-adviser relationship, the author discusses secrecy and leaks, the structure within which rulers make decisions, and the various ways of calibrating advice. Using sometimes humorous and sometimes painful examples, Meltsner demonstrates that rulers' reactions to advice are often based on such factors as expertise, trust, prior performance, predilections, and consensus. "Rulers should temper their notion of the loyal adviser as an extension of themselves and not assume that they and their advisers are one." Local and national leaders, military generals, industrial managers, and CEOs rulers of all kinds can surely benefit from this advice. Author note: Arnold J. Meltsner is Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Dividing the Rulers
Author: Yuhui Li
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125923
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The election of populist politicians in recent years seems to challenge the commitment to democracy, if not its ideal. This book argues that majority rule is not the problem; rather, the institutions that stabilize majorities are responsible for the suppression of minority interests. Despite the popular notion that social choice instability (or “cycling”) makes it impossible for majorities to make sound legislation, Yuhui Li argues that the best part of democracy is not the large number of people on the winning side; it is that the winners can be easily divided and realigned with the losers in the cycling process. He shows that minorities’ bargaining power depends on their ability to exploit division within the winning coalition and induce its members to defect, an institutionalized uncertainty that is missing in one-party authoritarian systems. Dividing the Rulers theorizes why such division within the majority is important and what kind of institutional features can help a democratic system maintain such division, which is crucial in preventing the “tyranny of the majority.” These institutional solutions point to a direction of institutional reform that academics, politicians, and voters should collectively pursue.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125923
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The election of populist politicians in recent years seems to challenge the commitment to democracy, if not its ideal. This book argues that majority rule is not the problem; rather, the institutions that stabilize majorities are responsible for the suppression of minority interests. Despite the popular notion that social choice instability (or “cycling”) makes it impossible for majorities to make sound legislation, Yuhui Li argues that the best part of democracy is not the large number of people on the winning side; it is that the winners can be easily divided and realigned with the losers in the cycling process. He shows that minorities’ bargaining power depends on their ability to exploit division within the winning coalition and induce its members to defect, an institutionalized uncertainty that is missing in one-party authoritarian systems. Dividing the Rulers theorizes why such division within the majority is important and what kind of institutional features can help a democratic system maintain such division, which is crucial in preventing the “tyranny of the majority.” These institutional solutions point to a direction of institutional reform that academics, politicians, and voters should collectively pursue.
The Dictator's Handbook
Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 161039044X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 161039044X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Author: Jared Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703681X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703681X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Square in a Square
Author: Jodi Barrows
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885156174
Category : Machine sewing
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885156174
Category : Machine sewing
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
For Rulers
Author: Yehezkel Dror
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633915527
Category : Political leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In this striking book, Yehezkel Dror bravely goes where few authors dare, offering a big-picture view of the fateful choices facing the human species. He urges humankind to adopt unconventional survival and thriving strategies, including elevating the future of humanity above state interests, limiting the production and spread of dangerous knowledge and tools, and strengthening humanity's collective deliberative capacity. The author confronts the evolutionary trap of science and technology ensnaring unprepared humankind by providing it with awesome future-shaping power, which contemporary values and institutions are unable to handle. Dror warns that tribal and nationalist values, the inability to learn from history, and mediocre leadership will catastrophically endanger the future of human life, making radical, even painful, innovations essential. According to Dror, the prevailing form of politics is obsolete. Instead, he argues urgently for a new type of political leader - "Homo Sapiens Governors" - willing and able to fulfill the daunting mission to save humanity from itself. Recognizing that the tyrannical status quo will try to prevent essential transformations, Dror predicts new crises making what is still unthinkable clearly compelling - and that humankind will have to choose: learn rapidly to survive and thrive, or perish. YEHEZKEL DROR is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recognized as a founder of modern policy studies, he integrates multi-disciplinary scholarship with extensive personal experience as a global advisor into a novel paradigm on alternative evolutionary futures of humanity - as shaped by fateful choices humanity has never before faced.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633915527
Category : Political leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In this striking book, Yehezkel Dror bravely goes where few authors dare, offering a big-picture view of the fateful choices facing the human species. He urges humankind to adopt unconventional survival and thriving strategies, including elevating the future of humanity above state interests, limiting the production and spread of dangerous knowledge and tools, and strengthening humanity's collective deliberative capacity. The author confronts the evolutionary trap of science and technology ensnaring unprepared humankind by providing it with awesome future-shaping power, which contemporary values and institutions are unable to handle. Dror warns that tribal and nationalist values, the inability to learn from history, and mediocre leadership will catastrophically endanger the future of human life, making radical, even painful, innovations essential. According to Dror, the prevailing form of politics is obsolete. Instead, he argues urgently for a new type of political leader - "Homo Sapiens Governors" - willing and able to fulfill the daunting mission to save humanity from itself. Recognizing that the tyrannical status quo will try to prevent essential transformations, Dror predicts new crises making what is still unthinkable clearly compelling - and that humankind will have to choose: learn rapidly to survive and thrive, or perish. YEHEZKEL DROR is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recognized as a founder of modern policy studies, he integrates multi-disciplinary scholarship with extensive personal experience as a global advisor into a novel paradigm on alternative evolutionary futures of humanity - as shaped by fateful choices humanity has never before faced.
Real Reasons Rulers Resist Replacement
Author: Emmanuel Oghenebrorhie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462866433
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
This is the first of a two part series which outlines the real reasons rulers would not readily subscribe to giving up their positional power, authority and relevance. Only those who are honest and had occupied such positions would understand the plight of the acclaimed bad ruler whom citizens insist must quit. It is one of the most difficult things for the human nature to comprehend and agree to implement at his expense. All those clamouring for the replacement of the ruler know their heart-hidden reasons, above the tenable reasons they give and defend stoutly, for such insistence. Rather than rubbish them, rulers under pressure to quit or who have even quit should be pitied because they are living a nightmare every minute they spend outside the throne which they once enjoyed. Most times, ousted rulers feel better dead than alive to adjust to regular lifestyle in the same domain in which they once ruled and reigned. Enjoy a happy reading.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462866433
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
This is the first of a two part series which outlines the real reasons rulers would not readily subscribe to giving up their positional power, authority and relevance. Only those who are honest and had occupied such positions would understand the plight of the acclaimed bad ruler whom citizens insist must quit. It is one of the most difficult things for the human nature to comprehend and agree to implement at his expense. All those clamouring for the replacement of the ruler know their heart-hidden reasons, above the tenable reasons they give and defend stoutly, for such insistence. Rather than rubbish them, rulers under pressure to quit or who have even quit should be pitied because they are living a nightmare every minute they spend outside the throne which they once enjoyed. Most times, ousted rulers feel better dead than alive to adjust to regular lifestyle in the same domain in which they once ruled and reigned. Enjoy a happy reading.
On the Government of Rulers
Author: Ptolemy of Lucca
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.
The Rulers
Author: Don Whitington
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Power of Kings and Other Civil Rulers, and the Duty of Subjection on the Part of the People
Author: Thomas Hockin Kingdon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description