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"This article presents and assesses the thesis that a shift in the character of governing elites and leaders has been occurring in several important liberal democracies during recent years. Ascendant elites are more leonine and top leaders are more pugnacious. We attribute the shift to strong centripetal pressures that now impinge on elites and leaders, and we ask about the shift's consequences for the Operation of liberal democracies." (author's abstract)

Dick Hamer was the Australian reformer who made Victoria a leader in social equality, the arts, and the environment. He and his government built the underground rail loop, decriminalized homosexuality, abolished capital punishment, and outlawed sexual discrimination in the workplace. Hamer and his team ended the demolition of the inner suburbs, preserved the best of the state's buildings and landscapes, and set aside large areas of diverse ecosystems as national parks. Hamer was a different kind of politician. He was intelligent, fair-minded, courteous, and hard-working, and governed with the

Anlaß des Beitrages ist die Verleihung des 'Preises der Freiheit' durch Liberal International (LI) an den argentinischen Präsidenten Raul Alfonsin am 5.1O.1985 in Madrid. Er ist Parteivorsitzender der Union Civica Radical. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit diese Partei liberales Gedankengut verwirklicht und dieses in Regierungspraxis umsetzt. (AuD-Hrn)