Democracy for the few

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Main Author: Parenti, Michael, 1933-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Thomson-Wadsworth, [2008]
Edition:8th ed.
Subjects:
Elite (Social sciences) > United States.
Political participation > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-

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505 0 0 |t Preface --  |t About the author --  |g ch. 1.  |t Partisan politics --  |t Beyond textbooks --  |g The  |t politico-economic system --  |g ch. 2.  |t Wealth and want in the United States --  |t Capital and labor --  |t Capital concentration : who owns America? --  |t Downsizing and price gouging --  |t Monopoly farming --  |t Market demand and productivity --  |t Market demand and productivity --  |g The  |t hardships of working America --  |g The  |t human costs of economic injustice --  |g ch. 3. The  |t plutocratic culture : institutions and ideologies --  |t Corporate plutocracy and ideological orthodoxy --  |t Left, right, and center --  |t Public opinion : which direction? --  |t Democracy : form and content --  |g ch. 4. A  |t constitution for the few --  |t Class power in early America --  |t Containing the spread of democracy --  |t Fragmenting majority power --  |t Plotters or patriots? --  |t Democratic concessions -- 
505 0 0 |g ch. 5.  |t Rise of the corporate state --  |t War against labor, favors for business --  |t Pliable progressives and red scares --  |g The  |t New Deal : hard times and tough reforms --  |g ch. 6.  |t Politics : who gets what? --  |t Welfare for the rich --  |t Federal bailouts, state and local handouts --  |t Taxes : helping the rich in their time of greed --  |t Unkind cuts, unfair rates --  |t Deficit spending and the national debt --  |t Some hidden deficits --  |g ch. 7. The  |t U.S. global military empire --  |g A  |t global kill capacity --  |t Pentagon profits, waste, and theft --  |t Harming our own --  |t Economic imperialism --  |t Intervention everywhere --  |t Global bloodletting --  |g ch. 8.  |t Health and human services : sacrificial lambs --  |g The  |t poor get less (and less) --  |t Social insecurity : privatizing everything --  |t How much health can you afford? --  |t Buyers beware, and workers too --  |t Creating crises : schools and housing --  |t "Mess transit" --  |g ch. 9. The  |t last environment --  |t Toxifying the Earth --  |t Eco-apocalypse --  |t Pollution for profits --  |t Government for the despoilers --  |g An  |t alternative approach -- 
505 0 0 |g ch. 10.  |t Unequal before the law --  |t Crime in the suites --  |t Class law : tough on the weak --  |g The  |t crime of prisons --  |g A  |t most fallible system --  |t Sexist justice --  |g The  |t victimization of children --  |t Racist law enforcement --  |g ch. 11.  |t Political repression and national insecurity --  |g The  |t repression of dissent --  |t Political prisoners, USA --  |t Political murder, USA --  |g The  |t national security autocracy --  |t CIA : capitalism's international army or cocaine import agency? --  |t Watergate and Iran-contra --  |t Homeland insecurity --  |g ch. 12.  |t Who governs? Elites, labor, and globalization --  |g The  |t ruling class --  |t Labor besieged --  |t Unions and the good fight --  |t How globalization undermines democracy --  |g ch. 13.  |t Mass media : for the many, by the few --  |t He who pays the piper --  |g The  |t ideological monopoly --  |t Serving officialdom --  |t Political entertainment --  |t Room for alternatives? -- 
505 0 0 |g ch. 14.  |t Voters, parties, and stolen elections --  |t Democrats and Republicans : any differences? --  |g The  |t two-party monopoly --  |t Making every vote count --  |t Rigging the game --  |t Money : a necessary condition --  |g The  |t struggle to vote --  |t Stolen elections, lost democracy --  |g ch. 15.  |t Congress : the pocketing of power --  |g A  |t Congress for the money --  |t Lobbyists : the other lawmakers --  |g The  |t varieties of corruption --  |t Special interests, secrecy, and manipulation --  |g The  |t legislative labyrinth --  |t Term limits --  |t Legislative democracy under siege --  |g ch. 16. The  |t President : guardian of the system --  |t Salesman of the system --  |g The  |t two faces of the President --  |t Feds versus states --  |g A  |t loaded electoral college --  |g The  |t would-be king --  |g ch. 17. The  |t political economy of bureaucracy --  |g The  |t myth and reality of inefficiency --  |t Deregulation and privatization --  |t Secrecy and deception, waste and corruption --  |t Nonenforcement : politics in command --  |t Serving the "regulated" --  |t Public authority in private hands --  |t Monopoly regulation versus public-service regulation -- 
505 0 0 |g ch. 18. The  |t supremely political court --  |t Who judges? --  |t Conservative judicial activism --  |t Circumventing the First Amendment --  |t Freedom for revolutionaries (and others)? --  |t As the Court turns --  |t Influence of the Court --  |g ch. 19.  |t Democracy for the few --  |t Pluralism for the few --  |g The  |t limits of reform --  |t Democracy as class struggle --  |g The  |t roles of state --  |t What is to be done? --  |g The  |t reality of public production --  |t Index. 
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