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State of Power 2016: Democracy, power and resistance

TNI’s fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers seeking to undermine democracy today, and tell the stories of radical popular democratic alternatives emerging worldwide.

Contents:

Introduction – Democracy is dead, long live democracies

Hilary Wainwright

Democracy, power and sovereignty in today’s Europe

Yanis Varoufakis

A Global Post-Democratic Order

Leigh Phillips

Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power

Elaine Coburn

Tyranny of Global Finance

Walden Bello

Multi-stakeholder Governance: A corporate push for a new form of global governance

Harris Gleckman

Case study: Nutrition and food – how government for and of the people became government for and by the TNCs

Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente

“To change the heart and soul”: How elites contained the global climate justice movement

Herbert Docena

Precarity, Power and Democracy

Tom George

Freedom technologists and the future of global justice

John Postill

The open source city as the transnational democratic future

Bernardo Gutierrez

Power in India: Radical Pathways

Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das

Author: Yanis Varoufakis, Leigh Phillips, Elaine Coburn, Harris Gleckman, Ashish Kothari, Pallav Das, John Postill, Bernardo Gutierrez, Herbert Docena,

Binding: Kindle Edition

Manufacturer: Transnational Institute

Number of pages: 198

Product group: eBooks

Studio: Transnational Institute

Publication Date: 2016-02-16

Publisher: Transnational Institute

Pages: 198

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