Hidden power : what you need to know to save our democracy / / Charles Derber
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| Autore: |
Derber Charles
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| Titolo: |
Hidden power : what you need to know to save our democracy / / Charles Derber
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| 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: | 9786612300509 |
| 9781609943547 | |
| 1609943546 | |
| 9781282300507 | |
| 1282300504 | |
| 9781605092959 | |
| 1605092959 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957857203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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