Can a character who made a pack be "alpha" in name only?

@Indra - I guess I meant more: is an alpha ICly and OOCly but doesn’t ICly acknowledge their leadership and maybe the pack runs on a vote system (every major decision is voted upon). Or something like that. So that OOCly the person IRL playing the alpha is still a PM but ICly everyone would technically have the same amount of power because democracy.