Mechanics of Power (Record no. 9916)

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Classification number 320.2 MAC
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Personal name "Macgregor-Hastie, Roy"
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Title Mechanics of Power
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Frederick Muller
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1966
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Extent 189p.
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Summary, etc. The Mechanics of Power is particularly timely. Democracy is everywhere retreating in the face of advancing, resurgent autocracy <br/>and oligarchy. Attempts to export democracy to Africa and Asia seem to have failed-colonies which achieved independence <br/>under Fabian tutelage have opted for benevolent but often military. dictatorship. Variants of democracy in the U.S.A. and Australia <br/>would horrify Burke and make de Tocqueville laugh .. The masses in general have shown themselves to be uninterested in the ideal of democracy. <br/>All they desire is efficient Government, material prosperity, to be "left alone", and the politically active minority is governing in <br/>spite of the people. The man in the street does not elect his rulers; they are chosen by a tiny handful of fellow rulers, past and present. Here, <br/>Roy MacGregor-Hastie discusses the resulting implications and shows how the men who rule the five "nuclear nations" <br/>achieved power, stressing the essentially undemocratic nature of the process. He is well qualified to do so, having observed the <br/>process both as a student of politics and as a "political animal" -he was adopted as a prospective Parliamentary candidate when he was only 24 and has served as a foreign correspondent inside all the power blocs.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political Science
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