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Democracy and its Discontents
Modern Readings in Theory 2Slide2
What’s Charisma Got to Do with It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvTGfz-I-qM&t=1m51sSlide3
What’s Charisma Got to Do with It?
Donald the
charismatic leader
Advantages?
Disadvantages?
Jeb the
rational (?) leader
Advantages?
Disadvantages
?Slide4
Agenda
Democracy and its Discontents
Introduction to Issues, Texts
Three ThinkersWeber, Michels
, Finley
Discussion-Debate
Which Model for Pericles?Slide5
Democracy and its Discontents
Introduction to
Issues, TextsSlide6
“How stable, how functional
was Athenian democracy
?”Slide7
“How stable, how functional
was Athenian democracy
?”
Or rather, How do our ancient texts approach that question?Slide8
“Democracy and its Discontents”
Sophists
“New Politicians”
StasisRecoverySlide9
Three Thinkers
Weber,
Michels
, FinleySlide10
Weber’s “Ideal Types”Slide11
Weber: “Legitimate Domination”
Legal authority (bureaucratic)
Traditional authority (theocratic)
Charismatic authority (democratic?)“Resting on devotion to … an individual person, and … patterns or order revealed/ordained by [him/her].” (215)
Weber, Max.
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
. Trans. Ephraim
Fischoff
et al. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Print.Slide12
Charisma Democratized — How?
Authoritarian legitimation
charisma => legitimacy => recognition
Democratic legitimation
charisma => recognition => legitimacy
(Weber
EcSoc
266 ff.)Slide13
"Plebiscitary Democracy”
“. . . a variant of charismatic authority, which hides behind a legitimacy that is
formally
derived from the will of the governed” (268).cf., . . .
“demagogues”
prostatai tou
dēmouSlide14
“Organization as such requires oligarchy
”
“
Die oligarchischen Tendenzen der Gesellschaft,”
Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik
(1908). Quoted in
Scaff
“Max Weber and Robert
Michels,” American Journal of Sociology (1981)
“All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”
(
Orwell
Animal Farm
)Slide15
Michels’ “Iron Law”
“… every organ of the
collectivity … creates
for itself, as soon as it becomes consolidated, interests peculiar to itself”
(353
)
“… the
men who lead and nourish
[the movement]
end by undergoing a gradual detachment from the masses …” (355)
Michels
, Robert.
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
.
Translated
by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Free Press, 1962. Print.Slide16
. . . and Athenian democracy
?
(Plus
Ober’s critique)Slide17
Finley on Charismatic Model
Athens atypical.
Weberian
typology inadequate.
Demagogues rare.
Structure unstable.
Popular legitimation contradicted. . .
by elitist model.Slide18
Discussion-Debate
Which Model for Pericles?Slide19
To explain the leadership of a Pericles, which comes closest to shedding some kind of light on the problem? Is it:
Weber’s “
charismatic authority”?
Michel’s “iron
law of
oligarchy”?