(Download) "State of Power 2016: Democracy, Sovereignty and Resistance" by Transnational Institute (TNI) " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: State of Power 2016: Democracy, Sovereignty and Resistance
- Author : Transnational Institute (TNI)
- Release Date : January 17, 2016
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
Description
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 of book
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
The 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