Rescuing Democracies: A Practical Guide for Good Governance and Democratic Survival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798242269095)

Is democracy failing, or is it simply being mismanaged?

In Rescuing Democracies, Chris Sheppard-a former Global President of a multi-billion dollar engineering division-argues that the current crisis facing Western nations is not merely ideological, but a catastrophic failure of administrative competence. Drawing on 45 years of experience in both the stifling bureaucracies of the state sector and the high-performance environment of the private sector, Sheppard reveals how "bureaucratic chains" are currently costing the UK economy an estimated 340 billion annually and undermining the very credibility of democratic governance.