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How Power Corrupts

Cognition and Democracy in Organisations

By: R. Blaug

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Hardcover | 9 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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This is an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms by which power corrupts. It incorporates 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.

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List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Corruption, Power and Democracy	p. 8
Corruption as an effect of power	p. 11
Hierarchic power and democracy	p. 19
Ideological power and the myth of autonomy	p. 26
Psychologies of Power	p. 30
Individuals in groups	p. 31
Groups of individuals	p. 38
Social, rough and reified terrain	p. 45
Individual Cognition	p. 56
Cognitive tendencies	p. 58
Schemas	p. 64
Bias	p. 67
Organisational Knowledge	p. 74
'Social' cognition?	p. 74
Hierarchy's 'great divide'	p. 83
Elite corruption	p. 93
Subordinate corruption	p. 97
Democratic Conclusions	p. 107
The cognitive critique of representation	p. 107
Democracies of mind and organisation	p. 111
Notes	p. 119
Bibliography	p. 144
Index	p. 167
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