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Lädt ... Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracyvon Sheldon Whitehouse
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Good introductory overview of how politics and the mechanisms of the state have been captured by corporate and plutocratic interests. However, I was a little disappointed at not getting more of the Senator's own experiences with this. I have not seen much of the progressive senator with the presidential surname, so I would have forgiven him putting himself out there a bit more in his book. In several places I needed more detail than was given, so I would recommend after reading this to go to some deeper treatments of particular areas: "We The Corporations" for how the Supreme Court has awarded corporations expansive rights; "Dark Money" on how conservative billionaires fund campaigns and influence politics; and the documentary "Hot Coffee" on efforts though the "tort reform" movement to reduce the power of the civil courts to hold corporations accountable. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don't "get right" by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary--even the Supreme Court--in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture" the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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