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Selling Out America's Democracy How Lobbyists, Special Interests, and Campaign Financing Undermine the Will of the People
Alan L. Moss
ISBN: 0-313-34551-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34551-7
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Economic consultant and former public servant Moss argues that American politics has been corrupted by special interests, moneyed lobbyists, and the system of campaign finance. He supports this argument through interviews with a variety of Washington actors, including a lobbyist, a European diplomat, and individuals on both sides of the Washington political divide. He then describes the deleterious impact of this corruption in failing to address global warming, raise the minimum wage, fix the health care crisis, or address inner-city crime. He also connects the system's deteriorating political leadership to the tragedy of Iraq and offers a number of measures to solve the problem, including charging the American Political Science Association and other non-partisan groups with developing candidate information profiles, founding a Federation of Public Interest Organizations....providing public financing for all federal elections, and restoring Federal Service capabilities and expertise.
    —Reference & Research Book News     8/1/2008
Description: America's historic greatness is in decline, subverted by moneyed special interests and their lobbyists who take advantage of our system of campaign financing to thwart the will of the people. Monuments to the impact of factions include inadequate efforts to curb global warming, infrequent increases in the minimum wage, no universal healthcare, unchecked inner-city crime, and limited stem cell research. Ineffective political leadership, corroded by special interest manipulation, has landed the nation in foreign intervention that takes American lives and spends obscene amounts of U.S. resources. Moss portrays the motivations and methods of those who corrupt our political system and betray the legitimate interests of the American people. He quantifies the gains reaped by beneficiaries of lobbyist successes.

Selling Out America's Democracy focuses on Washington insiders who serve the interests of narrow factions that seek to control the national agenda. Telling interviews represent the views of Congressional and think tank staff, lobbyists, media experts, foreign diplomats, and nonprofit citizen advocacy groups. Moss concludes by advancing a program of policy changes calculated to revive our democracy.
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
    Dedication
    Table of Contents
    Foreword
    Preface
    Chapter 1 The Ideal of Americas Democracy
    Chapter 2 The History of Political Influence in the U.S
    Chapter 3 Views of Citizen Advocacy Staff
    Chapter 4 Views of a Media Expert
    Chapter 5 Views of a Thoughtful Washington Conservative
    Chapter 6 Views of a Seasoned Washington Progressive
    Chapter 7 Views of a Candid Washington Lobbyist
    Chapter 8 Views of a European Diplomat
    Chapter 9 Global Warming: The Specter of Climate Change
    Chapter 10 Minimum Wage: Income Denied
    Chapter 11 Stem Cell Cures Thwarted
    Chapter 12 Health Care: Profit vs. Well-Being
    Chapter 13 Inner City Crime Unabated
    Chapter 14 Beneficiaries of Moneyed Interests
    Chapter 15 Policy versus National Interest
    Chapter 16 Deteriorating Political Leadership and the Tragedy of Iraq
    Chapter 17 Why Americas Democracy Is Failing
    Chapter 18 The Way Out
    Bibliography
About the Author: Alan L. Moss is an economic consultant and author. He has served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the U.S. Senate, Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, and Adjunct Instructor in Economics at the University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center. He is the author of Employment Opportunity: Outlook, Reason, and Reality.
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