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Author : Peter Mathews (Professor of political science)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Dollar Democracy written by Peter Mathews (Professor of political science) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Mathews
Publisher : Amazon
ISBN 13 : 9781513651422
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Dollar Democracy on Steroids: with Liberty and Justice for Some; How to Reclaim the Middle Class Dream for All written by Peter Mathews and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed our environment; brought us global warming and climate disruption; polluted our food supplies by deregulating Big Agribusiness, allowing pesticide use and Genetically Modified (GMO) foods; brought on the Wall Street crash and Great Recession, from which the bottom 99% of Americans have not yet recovered, while the super wealthy top 1% get richer. These Corporate sponsored policies created the greatest gap between the rich and poor since the Great Depression, and a disappearing middle class. Professor Peter Mathews critiques this "Dollar Democracy on Steroids" which brings Liberty and Justice for Some, and he also provides solutions that will bring Liberty and Justice for All! Peter Mathews life's work involves educating the public on accurate facts and progressive ideas in order to create and expand equal opportunity in America and the world. This has driven his quest for economic and social justice through the media and his work in the community. Peter Mathews is a full-time Professor of Political Science at Cypress College, and progressive Political Analyst on CNN, Sky News TV, Al Jazeera English TV, TRT World TV. He has been a guest host on KPFK radio 90.7 FM and Political Analyst on KFI and KEIB radio Los Angeles. He has been a Political Analyst on KNBC-TV, KCBS-TV, KTLA-TV and other radio and TV stations. His columns have been published in the Long Beach area Press Telegram, Orange County Register, and Random Lengths News.
Author : Cori Madrid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781303744112
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Dollar Democracy written by Cori Madrid and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed case studies of two countries where a campaign for dollarization was successful (Ecuador and El Salvador) and one case study of a country where dollarization was defeated (Argentina), this dissertation shows that struggles over dollarization reflect sectorial distributional struggles that are intrinsically related to processes of financial globalization.
Author : Bruce Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127014
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Voting with Dollars written by Bruce Ackerman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divdivIn this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of “secret donation booths” for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit card account containing fifty “Patriot dollars” for presidential elections. To use this money, citizens go to their local ATM machine and anonymously send their Patriot dollars to their favorite candidates or political organizations. Americans are free to make additional contributions, but they must also give these gifts anonymously. Because candidates cannot identify who provided the funds, it will be much harder for big contributors to buy political influence. And the need for politicians to compete for the Patriot dollars will give much more power to the people. Ackerman and Ayres work out the operating details of their plan, anticipate problems, design safeguards, suggest overseers, and show how their proposals satisfy the most stringent constitutional requirements. They conclude with a model statute that could serve as the basis of a serious congressional effort to restore Americans’ faith in democratic politics./DIV/DIV
Author : Peter Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496059734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Dollar Democracy written by Peter Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Edition. Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying. These politicians have voted to benefit their donors, not the American public. Many American political leaders have made decisions that led to: outsourcing good middle class manufacturing and high tech jobs, dismantling our public education system kindergarten through college and university, deteriorating health care that leaves Americans in danger, sick and broke, destruction and endangering of our environment and lives, polluting of our food supplies through deregulation of Big Agribusiness, pesticide use and the proliferation of Genetically Modified (GMO) foods, the crash of Wall Street and the Great Recession, from which the bottom 99% of Americans have not yet recovered, while the super wealthy top 1% are doing just fine. The Corporate dominated policies of these sponsored politicians have resulted in the greatest gap between the American rich and poor since the Great Depression, and a disappearing middle class. Professor Peter Mathews not only critiques this "Dollar Democracy" which brings Liberty and Justice for Some, but he also provides solutions that will bring Liberty and Justice for All, and will help the bottom 99% of Americans Reclaim the American Dream and make it a Reality once again! These solutions include Clean Money Elections and amending the U.S. Constitution to remove Corporate Personhood and to declare that money is not political speech according to the First Amendment. This Second Edition (2015) contains explosive new material on the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex and on TPP and TTIP.
Author : Francis Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351782975
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Dollar Diplomacy written by Francis Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: United States economic assistance programs in Latin America have been frequently restructured during the course of the past four decades. This book examines the evolution of US aid to the region, describes and explains US aid to the region since 1960. Focus is placed on four successive initiatives, the Alliance of Progress for the 1960s, the New Directions Mandate of the 1970s, the Private Enterprise Initiative of the 1980s and the Democracy Initiative of the 1990s. Empirical examples of actual programs, drawn from primary source documents, are used to illustrate more general propositions. The primary objectives of this study are to describe and explain US assistance policy toward Latin America during the past four decades and account for changes in the aid regime over time. Such assistance is typically linked to either the developmental needs of recipient countries, or the economic interests of transnational corporations.
Author : Philip Burne-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dollars and Democracy written by Philip Burne-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385236
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Financial Missionaries to the World written by Emily S. Rosenberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments. In an analysis striking in its relevance to contemporary debates over international loans, she reveals how a practice initially justified as a progressive means to extend “civilization” by promoting economic stability and progress became embroiled in controversy. Vocal critics at home and abroad charged that American loans and financial oversight constituted a new imperialism that fostered exploitation of less powerful nations. By the mid-1920s, Rosenberg explains, even early supporters of dollar diplomacy worried that by facilitating excessive borrowing, the practice might induce the very instability and default that it supposedly worked against. "[A] major and superb contribution to the history of U.S. foreign relations. . . . [Emily S. Rosenberg] has opened up a whole new research field in international history."—Anders Stephanson, Journal of American History "[A] landmark in the historiography of American foreign relations."—Melvyn P. Leffler, author of A Preponderence of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War "Fascinating."—Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Richard Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781644561751
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Democracy of Dollars written by Richard Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Democracy of Dollars is about a "legal" problem we have today in America. But it is not a lawbook written for lawyers. Nor is it a political book, taking sides with either conservatives or progressives.It is a book written for us Americans, to aid us in understanding a problem that affects each of us soeach of us can choose to do something about it.In this book, we illustrate the Democracy of Dollars plight we face through three examples: First, wefocus on the Supreme Court's deference through judge-made rules to the two political branches ofgovernment, particularly the Executive Branch, the effect of which is to deny too many people theirRights. Then, we focus on the plight of voters whose effectiveness is diluted by partisan gerrymandering.Finally, we focus on the effect of our Legislative Branch's uncontrolled delegation to the ExecutiveBranch, which has resulted in the unfettered growth of our "Fourth Branch" of government, theadministrative state, creating the "Era of Presidential Administration," driven by lobbies and specialinterests and not the will of the People. These examples led to the important conclusion: we each mustbe involved citizens.
Author : Julia Cagé
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424611X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Price of Democracy written by Julia Cagé and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it. One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide elections. But it’s hardly news that, in reality, political outcomes are heavily determined by the logic of one dollar, one vote. We take the political power of money for granted. But does it have to be this way? In The Price of Democracy, Julia Cagé combines economic and historical analysis with political theory to show how profoundly our systems in North America and Europe, from think tanks and the media to election campaigns, are shaped by money. She proposes fundamental reforms to bring democracy back into line with its egalitarian promise. Cagé shows how different countries have tried to develop legislation to curb the power of private money and to develop public systems to fund campaigns and parties. But these attempts have been incoherent and unsystematic. She demonstrates that it is possible to learn from these experiments in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to design a better system that would increase political participation and trust. This would involve setting a strict cap on private donations and creating a public voucher system to give each voter an equal amount to spend in support of political parties. More radically, Cagé argues that a significant fraction of seats in parliamentary assemblies should be set aside for representatives from disadvantaged socioeconomic groups. At a time of widespread political disenchantment, The Price of Democracy is a bracing reminder of the problems we face and an inspirational guide to the potential for reform.
Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568587112
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Dollarocracy written by John Nichols and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before. As the money gets bigger -- especially after the Citizens United ruling -- and journalism, a core check and balance on the government, declines, American citizens are in danger of becoming less informed and more open to manipulation. With groundbreaking behind-the-scenes reporting and staggering new research on "the money power," Dollarocracy shows that this new power does not just endanger electoral politics; it is a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself.
Author : Certain Trumpet Program
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Democracy Vs. Dollar$ written by Certain Trumpet Program and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yorick Blumenfeld
Publisher : Xlibris Corp
ISBN 13 : 9781413460803
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Dollars Or Democracy written by Yorick Blumenfeld and published by Xlibris Corp. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Capitalism, as a socio-economic system, is threatening both our human and spiritual survival and yet we remain in denial," warns the author." Like anorexics, we look in the mirror but refuse to recognize what we are doing to ourselves and our planet. Spiritually capitalism is a totally amoral system but our purportedly Christian nation raises no concerted protest against its incredibly corrupting effect on ourselves and children." Capitalism, he maintains, does not concern itself with morality: it is focused on profits. Blumenfeld devotes the first half of his book to examine why capitalism and democracy are basically incompatible. The litany of capitalism's devastating effects are becoming well known, although his condemnation of the corrupting impact of money on the democratic process is chilling. In the second half the author contends that there is an alternative, that if we want to prolong our existence on this planet we must turn to a less-abrasive and truly democratic system based on cooperation rather than one predicated on greed and competition. "Yorick Blumenfeld should be invited to every TV chat show on the planet. He could teach the world to sing...He says we should try to enhance the charms of life in the 21st Century with 'joy and laughter and a good measure of civility.' Clear the TV schedules now. Make lots of room for Yorick Blumenfeld." --- Michael Thompson-Noel, The Financial Times. "We are not the captives of capitalism. We do have a democratic choice. We have it within our power to change the economy to suit our needs without resorting to violence or coercion. But this demands careful thinking, vigorous discussion and debate, followed by planning and decisionmaking. This book offers you choices, not destiny." From the conclusion of Dollars or Democracy.
Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178488
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Democracy Incorporated written by Sheldon S. Wolin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level. Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come. Now with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges, Democracy Incorporated remains an essential work for understanding the state of democracy in America.
Author : Kevin Phillips
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767905342
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Wealth and Democracy written by Kevin Phillips and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth–how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans–from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders–Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security. Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines–speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics–signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340503
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (Enterprise) written by H. W. Brands and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great. Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market on gold in 1869 and as a result brought about Black Friday and fled for his life.
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (742 download)
Download or read book One Dollar, One Vote: The Role of Democracy and Free Markets in the National Security Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the Clinton administration, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake suggested that a strategy of enlargement of the "free community of market democracies" would replace the strategy of containment. Although the Administration has retreated from democratic enlargement as the keystone of its national security strategy, the explicit linkage between democracy and free markets, and implicitly, to prosperity is featured throughout the 1997 national security strategy. This linkage is problematic in both theory and practice. It assumes a positive relationship between a state's internal organization and capabilities and external behavior, and a correlation between free markets and prosperity and between free markets and democratic institutions. This linkage is further complicated in practice because one can measure how "free" a market system is and how prosperous it is, but democracy lends itself only to qualitative and subjective judgments. The underlying assumption that democracy and free markets lead to prosperity seems to obviate the need to choose between those goals. In practice, and especially in the short run, these goals may compete with each other. In policy planning, efforts to promote free market systems are likely to take precedence over those to promote democracy because of the following: (1) the objectives are clearer, (2) the development of democracy is a long-term project, (3) natural constituents of free market economies are better organized, and (4) the international system has strong mechanisms already in place to promote free market systems. If the promotion of democracy is indeed a core U.S. interest, the national security strategy should emphasize the contribution of democracy to free market systems, but level the playing field by refraining from case-by-case judgments. This would entail efforts to strengthen the long-term institutions upon which democracy rests -- free media, the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and political pluralism.
