TNI's fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers seeking to undermine democracy today, and tell the stories of radical popular democratic alternatives emerging worldwide. Contents: Introduction - Democracy is dead, long live democracies Hilary Wainwright Democracy, power and sovereignty in today’s Europe Yanis Varoufakis A Global Post-Democratic Order Leigh Phillips Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power Elaine Coburn Tyranny of Global Finance Walden Bello Multi-stakeholder Governance: A corporate push for a new form of global governance Harris Gleckman Case study: Nutrition and food – how government for and of the people became government for and by the TNCs Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente “To change the heart and soul”: How elites contained the global climate justice movement Herbert Docena Precarity, Power and Democracy Tom George Freedom technologists and the future of global justice John Postill The open source city as the transnational democratic future Bernardo Gutierrez Power in India: Radical Pathways Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das