Democracy for the few /
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Boston :
Thomson-Wadsworth,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- About the author
- ch. 1. Partisan politics
- Beyond textbooks
- The politico-economic system
- ch. 2. Wealth and want in the United States
- Capital and labor
- Capital concentration : who owns America?
- Downsizing and price gouging
- Monopoly farming
- Market demand and productivity
- Market demand and productivity
- The hardships of working America
- The human costs of economic injustice
- ch. 3. The plutocratic culture : institutions and ideologies
- Corporate plutocracy and ideological orthodoxy
- Left, right, and center
- Public opinion : which direction?
- Democracy : form and content
- ch. 4. A constitution for the few
- Class power in early America
- Containing the spread of democracy
- Fragmenting majority power
- Plotters or patriots?
- Democratic concessions
- ch. 5. Rise of the corporate state
- War against labor, favors for business
- Pliable progressives and red scares
- The New Deal : hard times and tough reforms
- ch. 6. Politics : who gets what?
- Welfare for the rich
- Federal bailouts, state and local handouts
- Taxes : helping the rich in their time of greed
- Unkind cuts, unfair rates
- Deficit spending and the national debt
- Some hidden deficits
- ch. 7. The U.S. global military empire
- A global kill capacity
- Pentagon profits, waste, and theft
- Harming our own
- Economic imperialism
- Intervention everywhere
- Global bloodletting
- ch. 8. Health and human services : sacrificial lambs
- The poor get less (and less)
- Social insecurity : privatizing everything
- How much health can you afford?
- Buyers beware, and workers too
- Creating crises : schools and housing
- "Mess transit"
- ch. 9. The last environment
- Toxifying the Earth
- Eco-apocalypse
- Pollution for profits
- Government for the despoilers
- An alternative approach
- ch. 10. Unequal before the law
- Crime in the suites
- Class law : tough on the weak
- The crime of prisons
- A most fallible system
- Sexist justice
- The victimization of children
- Racist law enforcement
- ch. 11. Political repression and national insecurity
- The repression of dissent
- Political prisoners, USA
- Political murder, USA
- The national security autocracy
- CIA : capitalism's international army or cocaine import agency?
- Watergate and Iran-contra
- Homeland insecurity
- ch. 12. Who governs? Elites, labor, and globalization
- The ruling class
- Labor besieged
- Unions and the good fight
- How globalization undermines democracy
- ch. 13. Mass media : for the many, by the few
- He who pays the piper
- The ideological monopoly
- Serving officialdom
- Political entertainment
- Room for alternatives?
- ch. 14. Voters, parties, and stolen elections
- Democrats and Republicans : any differences?
- The two-party monopoly
- Making every vote count
- Rigging the game
- Money : a necessary condition
- The struggle to vote
- Stolen elections, lost democracy
- ch. 15. Congress : the pocketing of power
- A Congress for the money
- Lobbyists : the other lawmakers
- The varieties of corruption
- Special interests, secrecy, and manipulation
- The legislative labyrinth
- Term limits
- Legislative democracy under siege
- ch. 16. The President : guardian of the system
- Salesman of the system
- The two faces of the President
- Feds versus states
- A loaded electoral college
- The would-be king
- ch. 17. The political economy of bureaucracy
- The myth and reality of inefficiency
- Deregulation and privatization
- Secrecy and deception, waste and corruption
- Nonenforcement : politics in command
- Serving the "regulated"
- Public authority in private hands
- Monopoly regulation versus public-service regulation
- ch. 18. The supremely political court
- Who judges?
- Conservative judicial activism
- Circumventing the First Amendment
- Freedom for revolutionaries (and others)?
- As the Court turns
- Influence of the Court
- ch. 19. Democracy for the few
- Pluralism for the few
- The limits of reform
- Democracy as class struggle
- The roles of state
- What is to be done?
- The reality of public production
- Index.