Leaders secure their position by enabling followers to become successful agents.
Evidence
Second, they show that leaders themselves can only succeed where they enable followers to become successful agents. It was because DMp allowed the prisoners to become masters of their own fate that his vision and his position was secure. It was because the organizers of the Commune failed to establish a communal society that both they and their vision were swept aside. Agency, according to this position, is not a limited resource to be distributed between followers and leaders. It is something which followers have because of their leaders and vice-versa. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 123
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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