Word: followership
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...questions about the unquestionable is certainly useful. In the 1980s, the U.S. political leadership in both parties has become more and more concerned with image and less and less involved with policy innovation and change. The decline of substance in favor of appearance has turned political leadership into static "followership," where politicians use opinion polls and television rather than their consciences to determine what they think. This problem can be solved only by politicians who measure their success by how much they have educated their constituents, instead of how often they are reelected...
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...many citizens are determined to have it their way-preferably at government expense-that suggests a breakdown in followership. "There seems to be no disposition to follow leaders," said Bunting. "Clausewitz once said that the most dangerous situation in a military campaign was a thwarted offensive. We are living now in a time of thwarted offensive. I mean the offensive of mind, of intellect; it follows very largely from the arousals of expectations during the Kennedy Administration...
...civic groups, clubs, churches, neighborhood associations, unions," there are many who may not be leaders in their jobs but who during "the rest of their time [exercise] a certain kind of leadership respected by neighbors, friends or other members of the community. You get a more intelligent, responsible followership if the followers themselves have experience with leadership...
Besides discussing the economic aspects of inflation, Duesenberry also told the forum that inflation is a social phenomenon with largely social costs. The equitable distribution of inflation's costs depends on the quality of political "followership," Duesenberry said...