George R. Tyler

Billionaire Democracy: The Hijacking of the American Political System

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 480 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538407257
• Artikelnr.: 47706616

Autorenporträt

George R. Tyler

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Introduction: Removing the Dead Hand of Pay-to-Play

Section 1

America is a Low-Quality Democracy

Chapter 1: Faux Democracy: America's Decline to History's Dismal Default Setting

Chapter 2: Documenting Low-Quality American Democracy: The Income Bias and International Evidence

Chapter 3: The Buckley Era: Constitutionally Shielding Vote Buying

Chapter 4: The Donor Class Buys Itself a Political Party

Section 2

Reducing the Role of Money to Improve the Quality of American Democracy

Chapter 5: The Roberts Republicans: A Partisan Court of Sumner Darwinians

Chapter 6: Rejection of Political Equality by the Constitution

Chapter 7: Political Bribery Decriminalized: Vote Buying as "Free Speech"

Chapter 8: The Buckley Era: Cynicism and Diminished Faith in Democracy

Chapter 9: International Dismay with the Variant of Capitalism Produced by Low-Quality American Democracy

Section 3

Achieving Political Equality

Chapter 10: Other Wealthy Democracies Corral Oligarchs

Chapter 11: Recriminalizing Vote Buying

Chapter 12: Rehabilitating America's Flawed Democracy: A Framework for Ending Vote Buying

Section 4

Original Intent to Prevent Fake News

Chapter 13: Original Intent: A Fact-Based Media

Chapter 14: Fake News Exacerbates Political Polarization, Tribalism, and the Income Bias

Chapter 15: Closing the "Hate Factories": Avoiding the Farce Feared by Madison

Chapter 16: Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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Timely book about voting in our current plutocratic political climate

Author platform from What Went Wrong and as a well-respected economist