Overview
- Establishes a distinction between form and operations of government and contends that form only accounts for part of the political process and is given too much attention, obscuring the more critical operations of government
- Appeals to practical intelligence by showing how the form of The Prince can be configured to read quite differently and still reflect the realities of governance at many levels
- Illustrates how little the operations and issues of governance have changed in 500 years
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Keywords
- Niccolo Machivelli's The Prince
- Modern Oligarchy
- Governance and Power
- Inherent vs Imposed Governance
- culture of states and corporations
- Civil and ecclesiastical oligarchy
- Ecology and sustainability
- Literary analysis
- social satire
- Inheritance
- bequeathed organization
- complexity theory
- financialization
- operational strategies of corporate and state actors
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“500 years after Machiavelli, James Sherry offers us a modern [and wide-ranging] treatise on the oligarchs who now rule our world and how they gain and maintain power. One wonders if the pejorative ‘Sherryan’ will be hurled at the power plays of future oligarchs.” (Jeff Cohen, Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, USA)
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Book Title: The Oligarch
Book Subtitle: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time
Authors: James Sherry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62169-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62168-5Published: 17 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62169-2Published: 14 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 157
Topics: Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, International Political Economy, Governance and Government, Literary Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History