Magnanimous leadership: Edmund Barton and the Australian founding

Professor Haig Patapan explores the meaning of magnanimous leadership, and its relevance for contemporary democratic transitions, through an examination of the leadership of Edmund Barton.

Research for this article was supported by an Australian Prime Ministers Centre fellowship. The article was first published in Leadership and the Humanities, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2016, pp. 1-20