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M 10 a u E H C ic P 0 id b h Hierarchy is a pro - leadership regime . Revelation from God comes to the people only through its leadership . There is one universal God , just as there is one set of rules . Mediation is not occasional ...
M 10 a u E H C ic P 0 id b h Hierarchy is a pro - leadership regime . Revelation from God comes to the people only through its leadership . There is one universal God , just as there is one set of rules . Mediation is not occasional ...
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To the internal contradictions of equity and hierarchy must be added the incompatibilities between these regimes . Hierarchies want to maintain differences among people , equities to diminish them . Equities are suspicious of wealth ...
To the internal contradictions of equity and hierarchy must be added the incompatibilities between these regimes . Hierarchies want to maintain differences among people , equities to diminish them . Equities are suspicious of wealth ...
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Hierarchies may be of two forms , according to whether they operate in such a way as always to align power and status ... In a Hindu system , the ruler is at the head of the power hierarchy , but the Brahmin is at the head of the status ...
Hierarchies may be of two forms , according to whether they operate in such a way as always to align power and status ... In a Hindu system , the ruler is at the head of the power hierarchy , but the Brahmin is at the head of the status ...
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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