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How Power Corrupts: Power & Hubris

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Tue 10 May 2011, 5:30pm

Free Word Hall

Lord David Owen and Dr Ricardo Blaug on political power and the corruption of citizenry.

Having served as Foreign Secretary, founded the SDP, and negotiated for peace in the former Yugoslavia, Lord Owen is a major political figure. Once a practicing neurologist, in 2008 he published In Sickness and In Power, which coined the term ‘hubris syndrome’. A revised and updated paperback edition is due out shortly.

Dr Ricardo Blaug, author of How Power Corrupts, is Reader in Democracy and Political Theory at the University of Westminster. Dr. Blaug has also worked as a psychiatric social worker and a public manager.