Taking Power Back: Putting People in Charge of Politics

ISBN-13: 9781447326878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str.

Simon Parker

Opis

One of the key issues of our time is the question of where power and governance should lie. Should they be centrally controlled, drawing on efficiencies of scale and gathered knowledge? Or should they be more locally distributed, so that they more closely represent the actual needs of people and communities? In "Taking Power Back," Simon Parker makes a powerful case for the latter: centralization, he argues, has been largely a failure, breeding distrust among citizens who, he shows, are beginning to take matters into their own hands. Offering policy recommendations and practical suggestions, Parker argues for a new kind of politics, one that can fully unleash society s creative potential."

Spis treści

The revolution will not be centralised: why politics needs to change; Learning to love the postcode lottery: why hoarding power usually fails; Giving up is hard to do: why it’s hard to share power; The localist renaissance: how England’s cities fought back; From consumers to creators: reinventing citizenship; The colonisation of Britain: how the empire came home; Giving up is hard to do: why politicians struggle to share power; Hack the state: how we can take power back.