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 | #349048 in Books |  Bent Flyvbjerg |  1998-02-28 |  1998-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.91 | File Name: 0226254518 | 304 pages

 | Rationality and Power Democracy in Practice


||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Good Read|By Jason G Lutz|Flyvbjerg does an excellent job of detailing how authority and power relationships influence the rationality of individuals functioning within and around a particular organization. He does this by exemplifying the art of rationalization as opposed to rational thought in certain contexts.

However, he also details how eventually these structu| |"Deeply original ... This book presents the single most important challenge to the perspectives of conventional social science." -- Alasdair Macintyre, University of Notre Dame

"Enthralling ... a seminal contribution ... demonstrates the fru

"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.'"

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