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The paper examines the ideas presented by Noreena Hertz in her book, "The Silent Takeover" on the issue of globalization. It discusses her claim that "the political state has become the corporate state". The paper analyzes the effects and impact of this shift upon democracy in western industrialized nations and argues that minimal democratic controls upon economic forces will ultimately have negative implications on democracies.

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"Noreena Hertz, in her book The Silent Takeover, claims that in "the last two decades the balance of power between politics and commerce has shifted....The political state has become the corporate state". In discussing this claim with regard to other writers on the topic of globalisation, this paper will identify the effects and impact of this shift upon democracy in western industrialized nations such as Canada. The thesis will be argued that as the impact of this shift has led to minimal democratic controls upon economic forces that ultimately will have negative implications for our modern democracies."

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