TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Archie AU - Karam Allāh,Nashwá Māhir AU - Brown,Archie TI - Kharāfat al-zaʻīm al-qawī: al-qiyādah al-siyāsīyah fī al-ʻAṣr al-ḥadīth AV - JC330.3 U1 - 303.3/40904 23 PY - 2016/// CY - al-Riyāḍ PB - al-ʻUbaykān KW - Political leadership KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process are the most successful and admirable UR - https://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1915390 ER -