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Autore: | Derber Charles |
Titolo: | Hidden power : what you need to know to save our democracy / / Charles Derber |
Pubblicazione: | San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.973/09/0511 |
Soggetto topico: | Business and politics - United States |
Corporate power - United States | |
Democracy - United States | |
Political participation - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-310) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Who Really Rules America; CHAPTER 1 American Regimes; CHAPTER 2 The Powers That Be; CHAPTER 3 The Rules of Change; CHAPTER 4 Cracks in the Regime; CHAPTER 5 Black Magic; CHAPTER 6 Fascism Lite; CHAPTER 7 The American Recipe for Change; CHAPTER 8 What's the Matter with the Democrats?; CHAPTER 9 A Cure for the Blues; CHAPTER 10 Saving Democracy; Appendix I: What You Can Do Now; Appendix II: Organizations to Join; Appendix III: Magazines; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author |
Sommario/riassunto: | Political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals. But there is another kind of hidden power in America: the grassroots social movements working for progressive change. If the Democratic Party can ally with these movements, America can be returned to its people.Derber sees American history as a succession of regimes, each spanning several administrations. Since the end of the Civil War, regimes of hidden power, in which corporate interests control b |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hidden power |
ISBN: | 1-60994-354-6 |
1-282-30050-4 | |
9786612300509 | |
1-60509-295-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818385203321 |
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