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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Exhibits -- Preface to the Third Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Studying non-democratic regimes: why and how -- Modernizing non-democratic rule: the three phases -- Democratically disguised rule -- 1 Theoretical Approaches -- The totalitarian-authoritarian approach -- The 'military regime' and 'one-party state' approaches -- The personal-rule approach -- Approaching complexity: semis, hybrids and less-than-democratic rule -- The rationalization of politics -- 2 Monarchical and Personal Rule -- Ruling monarchies: past -- Ruling monarchies: present -- Presidential monarchy and personal dictatorship -- Establishing personal rule -- 3 Establishing Military Rule -- The forensic framework -- Motive -- Means -- Opportunity -- Indirect and military-supported regimes -- 4 Establishing One-Party Rule -- Motive -- Means -- Opportunity -- Theorizing the forensic calculus of usurpation -- 5 Consolidation, Legitimacy and Control -- Seeking legitimacy -- Electoral and ideological legitimation -- Strengthening control -- Military dictatorships' strengthening of control -- Party dictatorships' strengthening of control -- Personal dictatorships' strengthening of control -- 6 Non-Democratic Governance -- Policies -- Institutions -- Party policy-making institutions -- Military policy-making institutions -- Personalist policy-making -- Performance -- 7 Governance and State-Building -- Policy-implementing problems -- State-building successes -- State-building failings -- State failure and destroyed dictatorships -- State disintegration through democratization -- 8 Democratization and Rationalization -- The 'third wave' of democratization -- Transitions from dictatorship -- Reversals, hybrids and double movements -- Rationalization rather than democratization.

This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however, remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral, governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and British democracies.

Although a primeval form of conflict, stateless warfare is still very much in existence in the 21st century. This is mainly because the insurgent stateless warfare of guerrillas and terrorists has been continually modernising since the 1800s in a manner similar to the three-phase modernisation of non-democratic regimes. Brooker makes this the focus of the first part of his fascinating book. He then moves on to examine the guerrilla and terrorist modes of insurgency, its revolutionary, separatist and expeller types as well as its two formats, the bandit-like and the gangster-like. The second part describes the forensic calculus of motive, means and opportunity that explains and predicts insurgents' degree of success. This framework assesses insurgents' motivation, their methods and capability, their military and political opportunity and their social opportunity for winning political support. Brooker concludes by predicting a fourth, apocalyptic phase in the modernisation of stateless warfare ₆ and an accompanying fourth, Orwellian phase in the modernisation of non-democratic rule.

This second, revised edition presents a broader discussion of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy and also includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy. The first part of the book is centred around Schumpeter's theories and his emphasis upon the role of leadership in democracy. Such leadership normally involves only an adaptive, incremental response to change but it can also take the form of an adaptive innovation, a creative response, or a pioneering leader's entrepreneurial-style initiative and innovation. The second part of the book uses the US and British examples of democracy to assess how much entrepreneurial-style, pioneering leadership occurred during the 1960s-90s in democracies' electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative, and policy-advocacy sectors. The second edition's conclusion offers a new appraisal of the prospects for this pioneering leadership, and the merely adaptive form of innovative leadership, in the decades and crises that lie ahead.

Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran, remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in the 1980s and early 1990s? The book offers an explanation based upon external relations - the regimes' defiance of external military or political foes - and then searches for alternative or supplementary explanations by examining the changes that occurred in these dictatorships' political structures, ideologies and economic policies during 1980-94

This book takes examples of iconic corporations to show how business leaders can use rational methods to develop companies and inspire people with confidence. It studies General Motors, Toyota, McDonalds, Walmart, Intel, Armani, and eBay through autobiographical writings and historical sources