Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice Volume 1998

by Bent Flyvbjerg

Book Overview

"It's like the story of Little Town," an influential actor says in Rationality and Power when choosing a metaphor to describe how he manipulated rationality to gain power, "The bell ringer . . . has to set the church clock. So he calls the telephone exchange and asks what time it is, and the telephone operator looks out the window towards the church clock and says, 'It's five o'clock.' 'Good, ' says the bell ringer, 'then my clock is correct.'"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226254518
• ISBN13: 9780226254517
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"