Democracy Derailed: The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money - Hardcover

Broder, David S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151004641 ISBN 13: 9780151004645

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A new form of government is sweeping across America: the initiative process, available in half the states and hundreds of cities. Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is, in reality, manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book David Broder tells how this revolution came about. A movement that started with Proposition 13 in California is now a multimillion-dollar business in which lawyers, campaign consultants, signature gatherers, and advertising agencies sell their expertise to interest groups or to do-gooders with private agendas. Broder takes the reader into the heart of these battles as he talks with the field operatives, lobbyists, PR spinners, labor leaders, and business executives, all of whom can manipulate the political process. A James H. Silberman Book

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151004641
• ISBN 13: 9780151004645
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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