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How Power Corrupts: Cognition and Democracy in Organisations by Ricardo Blaug β€” book cover

How Power Corrupts: Cognition and Democracy in Organisations

by Ricardo Blaug
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Overview

This is an interdisciplinary study of the actual mechanisms by which power corrupts. It pursues a cross-fertilization between political theory, organizational studies and cognitive science. In particular, it introduces advances in the field of cognitive psychology, which it uses to examine the effects of institutionalized power on how we think.

Synopsis

This is an interdisciplinary study of the actual mechanisms by which power corrupts. It pursues a cross-fertilization between political theory, organizational studies and cognitive science. In particular, it introduces advances in the field of cognitive psychology, which it uses to examine the effects of institutionalized power on how we think.

About the Author, Ricardo Blaug

RICARDO BLAUG is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds, UK.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780230218543

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