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Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Broder, David S
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This is an exploration of how initiatives are remaking America's democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics funded by moneyed interests, pursuing their own agenda.
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- Title Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money
- Author Broder, David S
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York, New York
- Date 2001-09-21
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ01IUWB_ns
- ISBN 9780156014106 / 0156014106
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 328.273
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Summary
Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics.
Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters in half the states and hundreds of cities 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 far too often manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas.
In this highly controversial book, David Broder, the "dean of American political journalism" (Brill's Content), explains how 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 with private agendas.
With a new afterword updating the results of the most recent elections and discussing the potential for future initiatives, 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.
Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters in half the states and hundreds of cities 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 far too often manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas.
In this highly controversial book, David Broder, the "dean of American political journalism" (Brill's Content), explains how 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 with private agendas.
With a new afterword updating the results of the most recent elections and discussing the potential for future initiatives, 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.
First line
In the minds of the nation's founders, the distinction between a democracy and a republic was clear-cut and important.
