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About this book
In this informative critique of contemporary leadership, renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located, and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power, making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to increased disenchantment with Western politicians and bureaucrats. Power considers how forces such as globalization, the new media, the changing role of the courts in parliamentary democracies, the partisanship of political parties in shaping policy, and collapsing boundaries between governments and within government departments have caused citizens to feel their countries are less democratic. Savoie argues that power is leaving institutions and organizations and going to powerful individuals in both the public and private sectors, who often push aside formal processes in order to drive change. A startling and clarifying examination of changes in modern society, Power unravels the tangled web of influences that have put the power to make important decisions in the hands of the few to show why our governing institutions are no longer effective.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Globalization: I Am Not to Blame, the Devil Made Me Do It
- 2 The Private Sector: Someone Now Has Power, but Who?
- 3 Power Operating above the Fray
- 4 The Shifting Power of Persuasion: Political Parties, the Media, Permanent Political Campaigns, and Polls
- 5 When Transparency Meets Power
- 6 Revisiting Governing from the Centre
- 7 The New Bureaucrats: Short-Order Cooks
- 8 Soft Power: Who Has It?
- 9 Our Institutions Are Melting the Canadian Way: With a Whisper, Not a Bang
- 10 Looking to Personalism for Answers
- 11 The Setting or the Individual?
- Notes
- Index