- Title
- Unholy or pragmatic? Governance in a post-democratic world
- Creator
- Wells, Philippa
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/165118
- Identifier
- vital:13267
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-911218-27-2 (ISBN); 2049-6818 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The term "post democracy" (Crouch, 2000, 2004) describes democratic societies that have political policy driven by small elites with non-popular agenda. Crouch identifies a range of reasons, including lack of shared goals, globalisation, lack of distinction between political parties, blurring of public and private sectors and privatization. The exercise of power by such elites raise issues for governance. Such issues include the approach, priorities and mechanisms. An earlier paper explored astroturfing (where sectional interests establish and/or support what appears to be a grassroots movement to build political and social influence) within a post-democratic context. In it, questions were posed around corporate governance (in reference particularly to sustainability/CSR) and of relevant regulation/legislation. Through governance theories and models, this paper explores some of those questions (and feedback on them) against a background of a changing political landscape within which business (mainly large publicly-owned corporates) operate and make strategic decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Proceedings of the European Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance is the property of Academic Conferences & Publishing International Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Publisher
- Academic Conferences & Publishing International Ltd.
- Relation
- 5th International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance (ICMLG 2017); Johannesburg, South Africa; 16th-17th March 2017 p. 478-484
- Rights
- Copyright of Proceedings of the European Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance is the property of Academic Conferences & Publishing International Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Astroturfing; Corporate governance; Post-democracy; Public opinion; Theories
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