Appointed leaders know, but so often forget, how different it is for elected leaders. How normal behaviour resumes months after an election and ends months before one.
Listening to a friend reminded me why China seems to have halted in a trajectory just at the moment. It’s the ninth year, next year is the tenth and their election happens next year. As he said, don’t expect too much in the next two years!
What are your thoughts on the difference between appointed leadership and elected leadership?
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1 Julian // May 24, 2011 at 14:11
Surely this question is simply about core democratic principles ? Elected leaders place their ideas before the electorate to decide on means of implementation by the appointed officers. An over-simplification maybe – but it is where these basic principles falter, as in China and increasingly here in the West, that crises and problems arise.
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