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Selling out : how big corporate money buys elections, rams through legislation, and betrays our democracy / Mark Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Mark J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Campaign funds--United States--History.
- Campaign funds.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 342 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Regan Books, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1. The Evil of Access: An Introduction 1
- 2. The History of Money in Politics: Scandal, Reform, Scandal... 27
- "Swilling the Planters with Bumbo" 28
- The Emergence of Professional Politics 30
- Money Starts to Talk 32
- The Age of Bribery 35
- Progressive Reform? 39
- FDR vs. "Economic Royalists" 45
- The New Media Age 47
- More Reform and More Scandal 49
- 3. Rules and Laws: How Money Shouts 55
- Buckley Rules 55
- The First Wave After Buckley: PACs and Boren 61
- The Second Wave: More Scandal
- S&Ls and Keating 65
- The Third Wave: The Clinton Roller Coaster and Soft Money Explosion 68
- The Fourth Wave: McCain-Feingold 73
- Current Rules of Engagement 83
- 4. Campaigning for Money: 30,000 Phone Calls Later... 105
- The Arms Race and the Ads Race 106
- The Professionalization of Politics 117
- Dialing for Dollars 120
- Incumbent Protection Program 128
- The Challenger's Paradox 131
- Supply Side Warriors 135
- 5. The Cost of Money: Democracy Under Attack 147
- The Money Chase Discourages Voting and Civic Participation 150
- The Money Chase Discourages Competitive Elections 154
- The Money Chase Creates "Part-Time Legislators, Full-Time Fund-Raisers" 155
- The Money Chase Deters Talent from Seeking Office 157
- The Money Chase Favors Multimillionaires 158
- The Money Chase Corrupts Legislation 161
- 6. The Players: Profiles from the Money Game 193
- The Company 193
- The Hammer 203
- The Senator from Big Business 209
- The Hustler 213
- The Wealthy Guy 217
- The Populist 223
- The Refuseniks 229
- 7. Reforms Don't Work?: Visit New York City, Maine, Arizona... 237
- The Apologists 238
- Public Sentiments 243
- A Tale of Two Cities: Campaign Financing in Albany and New York City 247
- Laboratories of Democracy 256
- Other Countries 264
- 8. Change, for Good: Who Owns Democracy
- Enron or You? 267
- Solutions 270.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060523921
- OCLC:
- 50516480
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