Coping with authoritarian rulers and decadent.
In politics attended every day of the predominance of personalism, which affects many Latin American governments. Therefore, the question of political leadership takes on great importance. How to define a leader? One who can interpret the situation as a whole, judging complex scenarios and propose viable solutions some authors claim. Must be able to set an agenda, encourage their followers to achieve it and do it, and generate actions and symbols that give citizens a sense of belonging, creating the means and aims to strengthen group identity and cohesion, with intention of movement to a collective work.
Political scientist Joseph Nye argues that a good leader is difficult to define because the word good has two different meanings: morally good or efficient. A good leader would be one effective way to help a group achieve its goals. In some cases, objectives may be bad from the moral standpoint, but good efficiency. Thus we understand that the leader is considered a crucial and positive element of the political game. But why are there bad leaders? Why people are seduced by leaders inefficient, incompetent, immoral or corrupt? The social science literature does not address these issues in depth, although Latin American rulers to strengthen their individual position, postponing the general prosperity, are common.
This type of leadership does not emerge from nothing. A leader germinates where there are vile and weak institutions, political parties delegitimized, corruption, dose of arrogance, falsification of the past and excessive thirst for power. This kind of leader generally has a brilliant speech that combines sentimentality with aggressiveness and seduction indiscriminate military strength. With all these ingredients is likely that the result is a driver interested in obstructing change and feed the permanence of traditions such as patronage, warlordism and authoritarianism.
bad leaders have, in general, brilliant capacity to deceive themselves and others and create coverage plagued democratic referenda, several elections, social mobilization support, groups of employees dressed in the same color and life-threatening slogans. Lately, the political horizon has been flooded with constitutional reforms which claim social, political, economic, minority and majority. Once abandoned the armed struggle, revolutions come from the hand of the Constitution. This is giving a mixture unclassifiable, obstructing signs, but also the practical reason. Authoritatively
democracy, these leaders reject the modernization of the parties leading to a poverty program that influences the design of public policies. The matches will deteriorate and become mere electoral machines, and fans are no longer critical individuals endowed with principles and ideas to become issues of political marketing. In
recent years, the leaders seem to be in the ascendant and decadent parties, however, democracies need both to function properly. The ascent of leaders does not necessarily threaten the democratic functioning of government, as long as the political parties continue to act as program production machinery to ensure coherence, coordination and monitoring its implementation. This requires that government institutions are able to control each other and control the rise of the leader. But this is one of the weaknesses of Latin American democracies, which along with the deterioration of the party leaders as seed and machinery ideological causes low quality of leadership.
leaders seem to be in the ascendant and decadent parties, however, democracies need both
In these contexts, when a leader assumes absolute power to regulate the media, foreign funding NGOs and shields against the action of the opposition or assigns the power to rule by decree, discredit opponents or reinvent the past, the company installed in uncertainty, short-termism and the cult of personalism. Gradually, the policy becomes more informal and arbitrary is deifies. Civil society loses its zenith and is trapped by selfishness interests and fears. Unions, military, church, business associations and media are polarized.
What can be done against authoritarian leaders and decadent? Who has the ability to educate? A British academic, Anthony Seldon, said, compared to recent acts of corruption among parliamentarians, citizens should be more active and do more to improve and protect the democratic system. Certainly, we should feel responsible and guilty of feeding the pitching presidents disorganized protests, but are unable to control corrupt and inefficient officials anchored at all levels of government.
One of the solutions, or at least a first step, is to encourage civil society to promote change through legal condemnation, social and political. Do not feel that anything goes and that good social policy is not anti-democratic behavior can cloud. The public must be on constant alert instead of dozing and waking up when the crisis is already guaranteed. Bar from corrupt and authoritarian leaders should not be so difficult, but requires a more active democratic participation, consistent and responsible society. Not a spontaneous and disorganized, but an analytical review of its real achievements and their lies propagated by media co-opted and manipulated by mass demonstrations.
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In politics attended every day of the predominance of personalism, which affects many Latin American governments. Therefore, the question of political leadership takes on great importance. How to define a leader? One who can interpret the situation as a whole, judging complex scenarios and propose viable solutions some authors claim. Must be able to set an agenda, encourage their followers to achieve it and do it, and generate actions and symbols that give citizens a sense of belonging, creating the means and aims to strengthen group identity and cohesion, with intention of movement to a collective work.
Political scientist Joseph Nye argues that a good leader is difficult to define because the word good has two different meanings: morally good or efficient. A good leader would be one effective way to help a group achieve its goals. In some cases, objectives may be bad from the moral standpoint, but good efficiency. Thus we understand that the leader is considered a crucial and positive element of the political game. But why are there bad leaders? Why people are seduced by leaders inefficient, incompetent, immoral or corrupt? The social science literature does not address these issues in depth, although Latin American rulers to strengthen their individual position, postponing the general prosperity, are common.
This type of leadership does not emerge from nothing. A leader germinates where there are vile and weak institutions, political parties delegitimized, corruption, dose of arrogance, falsification of the past and excessive thirst for power. This kind of leader generally has a brilliant speech that combines sentimentality with aggressiveness and seduction indiscriminate military strength. With all these ingredients is likely that the result is a driver interested in obstructing change and feed the permanence of traditions such as patronage, warlordism and authoritarianism.
bad leaders have, in general, brilliant capacity to deceive themselves and others and create coverage plagued democratic referenda, several elections, social mobilization support, groups of employees dressed in the same color and life-threatening slogans. Lately, the political horizon has been flooded with constitutional reforms which claim social, political, economic, minority and majority. Once abandoned the armed struggle, revolutions come from the hand of the Constitution. This is giving a mixture unclassifiable, obstructing signs, but also the practical reason. Authoritatively
democracy, these leaders reject the modernization of the parties leading to a poverty program that influences the design of public policies. The matches will deteriorate and become mere electoral machines, and fans are no longer critical individuals endowed with principles and ideas to become issues of political marketing. In
recent years, the leaders seem to be in the ascendant and decadent parties, however, democracies need both to function properly. The ascent of leaders does not necessarily threaten the democratic functioning of government, as long as the political parties continue to act as program production machinery to ensure coherence, coordination and monitoring its implementation. This requires that government institutions are able to control each other and control the rise of the leader. But this is one of the weaknesses of Latin American democracies, which along with the deterioration of the party leaders as seed and machinery ideological causes low quality of leadership.
leaders seem to be in the ascendant and decadent parties, however, democracies need both
In these contexts, when a leader assumes absolute power to regulate the media, foreign funding NGOs and shields against the action of the opposition or assigns the power to rule by decree, discredit opponents or reinvent the past, the company installed in uncertainty, short-termism and the cult of personalism. Gradually, the policy becomes more informal and arbitrary is deifies. Civil society loses its zenith and is trapped by selfishness interests and fears. Unions, military, church, business associations and media are polarized.
What can be done against authoritarian leaders and decadent? Who has the ability to educate? A British academic, Anthony Seldon, said, compared to recent acts of corruption among parliamentarians, citizens should be more active and do more to improve and protect the democratic system. Certainly, we should feel responsible and guilty of feeding the pitching presidents disorganized protests, but are unable to control corrupt and inefficient officials anchored at all levels of government.
One of the solutions, or at least a first step, is to encourage civil society to promote change through legal condemnation, social and political. Do not feel that anything goes and that good social policy is not anti-democratic behavior can cloud. The public must be on constant alert instead of dozing and waking up when the crisis is already guaranteed. Bar from corrupt and authoritarian leaders should not be so difficult, but requires a more active democratic participation, consistent and responsible society. Not a spontaneous and disorganized, but an analytical review of its real achievements and their lies propagated by media co-opted and manipulated by mass demonstrations.
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