The Charismatic Bond
Political Behavior in Time of Crisis
Douglas Madsen and Peter Snow
Harvard University Press, 1991
Here is a book that takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma and extends the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Douglas Madsen and Peter Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers, finding support for their argument in the rise of Juan Perón and the Peronistas in Argentina.
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