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Decoding Leadership
Paperback
ManagementGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Bene Comune Press
Published: May 8 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Decoding Leadership is an essential guide for understanding the complex and evolving dynamics of governance and power in our time. Written in an era of political upheaval, rising authoritarianism, and rampant digital disinformation, the book explores the urgent questions of our age: What makes democracy resilient? How do authoritarian leaders rise and sustain power? And what role does technology play, both in protecting and undermining democratic principles?
Drawing from comparative research, historical analysis, and global case studies, Dr. Marco Tavanti offers a compelling framework for analyzing leadership as a force for ethical governance, justice, and the common good. The book is structured in two parts.
Part I: Decoding Governance Dynamics investigates leadership rooted in service, responsibility, and democratic values. It examines how systems evolve, how leaders emerge, and how movements for social change either gain traction or falter.
Part II: Decoding Fascism Dynamics delves into authoritarianism past and present-from 20th-century fascism to today's strongman politics. Tavanti unpacks the mechanisms of propaganda, nationalism, and technocratic control, offering strategies for resistance through economic justice, critical education, and liberating religious and civic movements.
A critical theme of the book is the rise of technofascism-the convergence of AI, surveillance, and corporate power in shaping public life. Tavanti highlights how algorithmic governance, digital propaganda, and oligarchic influence threaten democratic integrity and demand new forms of civic accountability.
Designed to inform and empower, Decoding Leadership includes original tools like the Governance Classification Questionnaire (GCQ) and the Authoritarianism Risk Index (ARI), along with a comprehensive glossary and annotated bibliography. These resources help readers-from scholars and students to policymakers and engaged citizens-recognize, resist, and reshape governance in the face of today's most pressing global challenges.
Leadership shapes the future of democracy. This book helps you decode it.
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