A01=Donald Savoie
Author_Donald Savoie
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- ISBN 9780773537583
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2010
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance and is a professor of public administration at Universite de Moncton.
