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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George R. TylerPublisher: BenBella Books Imprint: BenBella Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.377kg ISBN: 9781942952923ISBN 10: 1942952929 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 30 January 2018 Audience: General/trade , General , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Removing the Dead Hand of Pay-to-Play Section 1 America is a Low-Quality Democracy Chapter 1: Faux Democracy: America’s Decline to History’s Dismal Default Setting Chapter 2: Documenting Low-Quality American Democracy: The Income Bias and International Evidence Chapter 3: The Buckley Era: Constitutionally Shielding Vote Buying Chapter 4: The Donor Class Buys Itself a Political Party Section 2 Reducing the Role of Money to Improve the Quality of American Democracy Chapter 5: The Roberts Republicans: A Partisan Court of Sumner Darwinians Chapter 6: Rejection of Political Equality by the Constitution Chapter 7: Political Bribery Decriminalized: Vote Buying as “Free Speech” Chapter 8: The Buckley Era: Cynicism and Diminished Faith in Democracy Chapter 9: International Dismay with the Variant of Capitalism Produced by Low-Quality American Democracy Section 3 Achieving Political Equality Chapter 10: Other Wealthy Democracies Corral Oligarchs Chapter 11: Recriminalizing Vote Buying Chapter 12: Rehabilitating America’s Flawed Democracy: A Framework for Ending Vote Buying Section 4 Original Intent to Prevent Fake News Chapter 13: Original Intent: A Fact-Based Media Chapter 14: Fake News Exacerbates Political Polarization, Tribalism, and the Income Bias Chapter 15: Closing the “Hate Factories”: Avoiding the Farce Feared by Madison Chapter 16: Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments IndexReviews* Timely book about voting in our current plutocratic political climate * Author platform from What Went Wrong and as a well-respected economist - Timely book about voting in our current plutocratic political climate - Author platform from What Went Wrong and as a well-respected economist Author InformationGeorge Tyler is an economist who has extensive private- and public-sector exposure to international issues and foreign economics and political systems. Author of What Went Wrong he worked in the United States Senate for 18 years. Tyler served as senior economist to former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and to Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX). Appointed by President Clinton as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Tyler has worked closely with top policymakers like Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. His international exposure was intensified when working at the World Bank in Washington. Drawing on his international experience and contacts, Tyler co-authored the creation of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in 1999. He envisioned DNDi as a non-profit NGO conducting research on medicines for the neglected diseases of the developing world. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontiéres or MSF) endorsed the concept and provided critical seed funding to the Geneva-based NGO. MSF continues to support the $19 million budget in conjunction with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and private donors like the Gates Foundation. As a member of the DNDi audit committee, Tyler gained extensive exposure to Europe and economic systems across the globe. Coupled with his time in the U.S. Senate and Treasury, this experience gives Tyler an expansive perspective on the many variations of capitalism and democracy across the globe. Tyler is also treasurer of the international aid group Bikes for the World, which recycles American bicycles to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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