Book Chapter
Leadership of the Modern University
G Davis, G Sharrock
Dispersed Democratic Leadership: Origins, Dynamics, and Implications | Published : 2011
Abstract
Democratic states distribute authority among public institutions chartered to balance the interests of citizens and protect them against the excesses of more powerful social actors, including the state itself. Democracies assume an active civil sphere where public organizations can emerge to represent sectoral interests by advocating policy that may differ from that administered by state authorities. This wide dispersal of administrative and representative authority across public institutions and community, professional, industry, media, and other non-government organizations is a feature of democracies. Collectively they inform, enable, and constrain the operation of executive government, a..
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