Leadership and democratisation : the case of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Kim Dae-Jung in South Korea

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the late 1940s, South Africa and South Korea were ruled by authoritariangovernments, which oppressed the people's freedom and rights. The governmentscreated the deeply divided societies that resulted in racism in South Africa andregionalism in South Korea. These similarities may have played a major role inallowing Nelson Mandela and Kim Dae-jung to develop strong emotional bonds withtheir followers and to articulate their visions for the future.The two leaders, Nelson Mandela and Kim Dae-jung, fought for freedom and humanrights against the apartheid government in South Africa and military dictatorialgovernment in South Korea. During these processes of democratisation, the two leadersdisplayed common transformational and social learning leadership styles and presentedtheir visions of the end of the authoritarian regimes and the establishment of democracy;shared these visions with the people and encouraged and mobilised them in strugglingtogether against authoritarian government.Subsequently, the two leaders' transformational and social learning leadership stylesprovide a successful role model to countries in which there are conflicts between theconstituents of the society, as in East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East; adesire for transformation towards democracy by the people, and where countries areconfronted with new challenges.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University