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9780465022014

Shadow Elite How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market

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    9780465022014

  • ISBN10:

    0465022014

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-04-05
  • Publisher: Basic Books

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Janine R. Wedel is a professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. Her previous books include Collision and Collusion, for which she won the Grawemeyer Award. She lives in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Confidence Men and Their Flex Livesp. 1
When Privatization Meets Truthinessp. 23
Flex Power in the Wild Eastp. 47
U.S. Government, Inc.p. 73
The Privatizersp. 111
The Commandeersp. 147
Accountability in the Age of Flex Netsp. 193
Notesp. 207
Indexp. 269
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