Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout.
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Teachout, Zephyr (författare)
- ISBN 9780674050402
- Publicerad: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014
- Copyright: ©2014
- Engelska viii, 376 pages
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Sammanfattning
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- Four snuff boxes and a horse -- Changing the frame -- Removing temptations -- Yazoo -- Is bribery without a remedy? -- Railroad ties -- The forgotten law of lobbying -- The gilded age -- Two kinds of sticks -- The jury decides -- Operation Gemstone -- A West Virginia state of mind -- Citizens United -- The new snuff boxes -- Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain -- The anticorruption principle conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anticorruption constitutional provisions -- Appendix 2: Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century anticorruption laws.
- In 1785, Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait. Americans believed it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Teachout, if the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal.
Ämnesord
- Politisk kultur (sao)
- Politisk etik (sao)
- Politisk korruption -- historia (sao)
- Political corruption -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Judicial corruption -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Political culture -- United States. (LCSH)
- Judicial corruption. (fast)
- Political corruption. (fast)
- Political culture. (fast)
- Political ethics. (fast)
- Politiska förhållanden -- etik och moral (sao)
- Political culture (LCSH)
- Political ethics (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna (sao)
- United States -- Politics and government -- Moral and ethical aspects. (LCSH)
- United States. (fast)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Klassifikation
- JK2249 (LCC)
- 364.13230973 (DDC)
- Oer (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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