A People's Watchdog against Abuse of Power
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 152
ISSN: 1540-6210
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In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 152
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Administration & society, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 267-284
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: Worldview, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 11-15
I begin, with apologies, by mentioning two of my own books; Can American Democracy Survive Cold War? (1963) and The Intelligence Establishment (1970). The titles say much about the development of a debate that promises to be with us for some time.The first title/question posed the dilemma of an American democracy facing a perceived threat (perceived at least by the foreign policy elite) to national security. An assumed monolithic "world communism" provoked the creation of a vast arsenal of foreign policy instruments, including espionage and covert political operations overseas. Managing mis mammoth security apparatus required highly centralized control. Indeed, at times it required deception, lying, and deep secrecy.
In: African conflict & peacebuilding review: ACPR, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 27-54
ISSN: 2156-7263
In: International affairs, Band 83, Heft 2, S. 375-377
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Harvard international review, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 48-53
ISSN: 0739-1854
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 219-224
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: publ. by the National Municipal League, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 219
ISSN: 0027-9013
In: Journal of peace research, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 219-235
ISSN: 1460-3578
Using Foucault's concepts of power relations, discourse and internalization, this article uncovers some basic dissemination and internalization strategies of power relations on several levels. First, it looks at power at the individual level, with an analysis of family abuse and torture. It then applies this analysis to Westernization in Africa, arguing that the basic strategies by which power is disseminated and internalized into the bodies, psyches and cultures of Africans are the same as in abuse. The internalization of the Western discourse at the individual and small-community levels was studied through field research, undertaken in Ghana, that included participant observation and interviews. The research shows that even in the case of small, local, sustainable development projects, one sees a Westernization of power relations between men and women, chiefs and population, and elders and youth, with changes in related values. The field research reveals that actors are not merely passive victims of changes in discourses: they resist it, cooperate, disseminate and adapt it to their needs, but within the rules of the Western regime of discourse. The general conditions, processes and actors' strategies in this process of discursive change go further than a mere analogy to abuse and torture. The article shows that the process by which an initially violent, dominant discourse is transformed into a 'normal' way of living, into beliefs and wishes, is the same in these different cases, suggesting that there exist some general strategies by which power is disseminated at the international and individual levels and by which it is propagated and internalized by individuals.
In: American federationist: official monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Band 34, S. 1435-1444
ISSN: 0002-8428
In: American political science review, Band 99, Heft 1, S. 29-43
ISSN: 0003-0554
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This wide-ranging comparative account of the legal regimes for controlling administrative power in England, the USA and Australia argues that differences and similarities between control regimes may be partly explained by the constitutional structures of the systems of government in which they are embedded. It applies social-scientific and historical methods to the comparative study of law and legal systems in a novel and innovative way, and combines accounts of long-term and large-scale patterns of power distribution with detailed analysis of features of administrative law and the administrative justice systems of three jurisdictions. It also proposes a new method of analysing systems of government based on two different models of the distribution of public power (diffusion and concentration), a model which proves more illuminating than traditional separation-of-powers analysis