The Importance of Leadership

Leadership, to galvanize people into action on important issues, is essential to all political processes. Interactive Democracy isn't a leader-less system: A government must still be formed, yet it allows others to be opinion leaders on all sorts of different issues. This may actually reduce the difficulties that political parties face in tailoring policies to appeal to the majority of voters, without risking appearing "wishy washy".

This article explains the difficulties of politicians moving their position in order to seek the centre ground.