POWER & LEADERSHIP Unit 1: Introduction to government
JOURNAL #4 Name: Date: Copy question: What qualities do you prize in a leader? As a leader, is it better to be loved or feared? Explain.
WHAT ABOUT… Cunning? Distrustful? Ruthless? Deceptive? Controlling? Manipulative? Feared? Secretive?
HOW DO YOU GET & KEEP POWER? POWER: A person, group, or state that exercises control; authority or influence.
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI 1500’S FLORENCE Founder of modern political science, specifically ethics Most famous work: The Prince Written to the Medici family Handbook on how to be a prince (ruler, President) and maintain power.
MACHIAVELLIAN THEORY (1500’S) Endorsed behavior often deemed as evil and immoral Basically…the ENDS justify the MEANS Machiavellianism is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians
HOW MACHIAVELLI SAW HUMAN NATURE Humans, by nature, are: Greedy, power hungry, easy to corrupt, naïve, vain, cowardly, impressionable
MACHIAVELLI “Government cannot be maintained through morality”
500 YEARS LATER… THE PRINCE STILL RELEVANT? Who’s afraid of Machiavelli?