The Politics of Moral CapitalIt is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people's positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens 'moral capital'. Negative judgements cause a loss of moral capital which jeopardizes legitimacy and political survival. Studies of several historical and contemporary leaders - Lincoln, de Gaulle, Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi - illustrate the significance of moral capital for political legitimation, mobilizing support, and the creation of strategic opportunities. In the book's final section, Kane applies his arguments to the American presidency from Kennedy to Clinton. He argues that a moral crisis has afflicted the nation at its mythical heart and has been refracted through and enacted within its central institutions, eroding the moral capital of government and people and undermining the nation's morale. |
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... York NY 10011-4211 , USA IO Stamford Road , Oakleigh , VIC 3166 , Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13 , 28014 Madrid , Spain Dock House , The Waterfront , Cape Town 8001 , South Africa http://www.cambridge.org John Kane 2001 This book is in ...
... York NY 10011-4211 , USA IO Stamford Road , Oakleigh , VIC 3166 , Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13 , 28014 Madrid , Spain Dock House , The Waterfront , Cape Town 8001 , South Africa http://www.cambridge.org John Kane 2001 This book is in ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments page | 1 |
Moral capital and politics ΙΟ | 10 |
Moral capital and leadership | 27 |
the longpurposed man | 50 |
the man of storms | 83 |
the moral phenomenon | 118 |
her fathers daughter | 147 |
Kennedy and American virtue | 180 |
Crisis | 200 |
Aftermath | 218 |
Denouement | 235 |
Epilogue | 255 |
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