Publications

Books:

How Power Corrupts:  Cognition and Democracy in Organisations, London: Palgrave Macmillan, Paperback, Blaug, R. (2014).

Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics,  Blaug, R. Albany: State University of New York Press, (1999). - Introduction    AND    - Main Text

Democracy: A Reader (2nd Edition), Blaug, R., Schwarzmantel J. (eds.) Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, (2016).


Articles:

How Power Corrupts [short version]

'Pathologies of Power and Cognition', Blaug, R in P. Garrard & G. Robinson (eds.), The Intoxication of Power: Interdisciplinary Insights, London: Palgrave Macmillan, (2016).

'Robber Barons: Pioneers often work best on the frontier,' Blaug, R., Financial Times, March 31, (2015).

'Transparency and Public Involvement in Animal Research', Pound, P., Blaug, R., Frame Publications: ALTA 44, pp. 176-173, (2016).

Localizando el compromiso público,’  [Locating Public Engagement – English Version], R. Blaug, Revista Comunicación y Ciudadanía,  No. 5, (2012) Bogota: Externado University of Colombia.

‘Democratic Management and Public Service Reform‘, Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., Research Republic, (2011).

Ownership and Good Work,’ Blaug, R., Lekhi, R. London: Good Work Commission, (2010).

Why is There Hierarchy? Democracy and Organisational Form,’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Blaug, R. (2009) 12/1: 85-99.   

Accounting for Intangibles: Financial Reporting and Value Creation in the Knowledge Economy,’ Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2009).

Demonstrating Public Service Responsiveness‘, Blaug, R., Parliamentary Brief,  (2009), June.

Smoke, Mirrors and the Employment Relationship,’ Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., London: Good Work Commission, (2009).

Direct Accountability at the End,’ Blaug, R. in Leighton, D., White, S. (eds.), Building a Citizen Society: the Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy, London: Lawrence and Wishart, (2008) . 

‘Job Quality and Work Organisation in the UK and Europe’, Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., Health and Safety Executive, (2008).

‘Participatory Service Evaluation in Public Service Broadcasting,’ Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., London: BBC Trust, (2008).

Cognition in a Hierarchy,’ Contemporary Political Theory, Blaug, R. (2007) 6/1: 24-44.  

‘Commissioning for Public Value’, Blaug, R., Lekhi, R., London: Capita Plc., (2007).

Stress at Work’, Blaug, R., Kenyon, A., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2007).

Deliberative democracy and the role of public managers’, Blaug, R., Horner, L., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2006).

Public Value and Local Communities’, Blaug, R., Horner, L., Kenyon, A., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2006).

‘Heritage, Democracy and Public Value,’ Blaug, R. in Capturing the Public Value of Heritage, Swindon: English Heritage, (2006).

Public Value, Politics and Public Management’, Blaug, R., Horner, L., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2006).

Public Value, Citizen Expectations & User Commitment’, Blaug, R., Horner, L., Lekhi, R., London: The Work Foundation, (2006).

‘Perceptions of Participation,’ Renewal: Journal of Labour Politics, Blaug, R. (2004) 33-9.

Engineering Democracy,’ Political Studies, Blaug, R. (2002) 50(1): 102-16. 

Blind Hierarchism and Radical Organisational Forms,’ New Political Science, Blaug, R. (2000) 22/3: 379-95.

The Thrill Has Gone: A Reply to Ehrenberg,’ New Political Science, Blaug, R. (2000) 22/3: 401-2.

Outbreaks of Democracy‘, Socialist Register, (2000), pp. 145-60.

Advice to Kings,’ Blaug, R. Prospect Magazine/ESRC New Century Essay Prize Winner, (2000).

Citizenship and Political Judgment: Between Discourse Ethics and Phronesis,’ Res Publica, Blaug, R. (2000) 6/2: 179-98.

Tyranny of the Visible: Problems in the Evaluation of Anti-Institutional Radicalism,’ Organization, (1999), 6/1: 33-56. 

‘Democracy and Mental Health,’ (1999).

Between Fear and Disappointment: Critical, Empirical and Practical Uses of Habermas’Political Studies, Blaug, R. (1997)  45(1): 100-17. 

New Developments in Deliberative Democracy,’ Politics, Blaug, R. (1996) 16(2): 71-8.

New Developments in Discursive Democracy: A User’s Guide,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism, Blaug, R. (1996)  22(1): 49-80.

‘All talk? The New Deliberative Theories of Democracy,’ Blaug, R. ‘in The State of the Academy: New Reflections on Political Studies, R. Lekhi (ed.), London: Network Press, (1995) .

Distortion of Face to Face: Communicative Reason and Social Work Practice,’ British Journal of Social Work, Blaug, R. (1995)  25(4) 423-39.

Habermas’s Treatment for Relativism,’ Politics, Blaug, R. (1994) 14(2): 51-7.

Staff Anxiety and its Management in a Day Nursery,’ Journal of Social Work Practice, Blaug, R. (1989)  3(4): 1-10; Winnicott Essay Prize Winner.

John Rawls and the Protection of Liberty,’ Social Theory and Practice, Blaug, R. (1986) 12(2): 241-58.