Shadow Elite
How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
Published on 5. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-465-02201-4 (ISBN)
Description
It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption, confused by who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. These are the powerful "shadow elite," the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. In her profoundly original Shadow Elite , award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine R. Wedel gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive figures and to comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our freedom and our ability to self-govern is at stake.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-02201-4 (9780465022014)
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Janine R. Wedel
Shadow Elite
How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
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11/2009
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€9.49
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Person
Janine R. Wedel is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Fellow at the New America Foundation. Her previous books include Collision and Collusion. She lives in Washington, D.C.