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Democracy Derailed: The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money Hardcover - 2000
by David S. Broder
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- Title Democracy Derailed: The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money
- Author David S. Broder
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # ABE-1710808829692
- ISBN 9780151004645 / 0151004641
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.8 x 1.03 in (21.62 x 14.73 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government, Democracy - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99054190
- Dewey Decimal Code 328.273
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Summary
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