The Psychology of Hierarchy
"All special privilege in some way limits the outlook of those who possess it.’
(Dewey)
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Examining the psychological politics of institutions and the interaction of organisational structures (hierarchies, markets, networks, democracies) and individual cognition (constructions of meaning and identity, sense of private and public self); the psychological and informational advantages of democracy; hubristic leadership and social cognitive accounts of how power corrupts; learning democracy as a craft; diagnostics for dysfunctional institutions.
Select Publications:
How Power Corrupts: Cognition and Democracy in Organisations, London: Palgrave Macmillan, (2014).
‘Cognition in a Hierarchy,’ Contemporary Political Theory, (2007) 6/1: 24-44
‘Why is There Hierarchy? Democracy and Organisational Form,’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (2009) 12/1: 85-99.
‘Tyranny of the Visible: Problems in the Evaluation of Anti-Institutional Radicalism,‘ Organization, (1999), 6/1: 33-56.
'Pathologies of Power and Cognition', Blaug, R. in P. Garrard & G. Robinson (eds.), The Intoxication of Power: Interdisciplinary Insights, London: Palgrave Macmillan, (2016).