Captured : the corporate infiltration of American democracy /

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 Wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitehouse, Sheldon, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Wachtell Stinnett, Melanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : The New Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Business and politics > United States.
Corporations > Political activity > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Affaires et politique > États-Unis.
Sociétés > Activité politique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Campaigns & Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Corporations > Political activity.
Democracy.
Business and politics.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One Constitution's Blind Spot
  • ch. Two Growth of Corporate Power
  • ch. Three Where We Are Now
  • ch. Four What the Corporate Political Machine Wants: Four Short Case Studies
  • ch. Five Powell Memo and the Corporate Strategy
  • ch. Six Capture of the Court
  • ch. Seven Capture of Elections: Citizens United
  • ch. Eight Capture of Regulatory Agencies
  • ch. Nine Capture of the Civil Jury
  • ch. Ten Denial Machine
  • ch. Eleven Climate Change and the "Flies of Summer"
  • ch. Twelve America's Lamp in Peril.

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