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Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics. Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters in half the states and hundreds of cities decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is far too often manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book, David Broder, the ""dean of American political journalism"" (Brill's Content), explains how a movement that started with Proposition 13 in California is now a multimillion-dollar business in which lawyers, campaign consultants, signature gatherers, and advertising agencies sell their expertise to interest groups with private agendas. With a new afterword updating the results of the most recent elections and discussing the potential for future initiatives, Broder takes the reader into the heart of these battles as he talks with the field operatives, lobbyists, PR spinners, labor leaders, and business executives, all of whom can manipulate the political process.

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David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press Lucent and fair . . . Broder is utterly convincing . . . [and] will get credit for raising the first warning flag. -The New York Times Book Review A concise, cogent political analysis . . . This alarm-bell of a book deserves- and is likely to command-wide attention. -The Baltimore Sun David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press

Lucent and fair . . . Broder is utterly convincing . . . [and] will get credit for raising the first warning flag.-The New York Times Book Review A concise, cogent political analysis . . . This alarm-bell of a book deserves- and is likely to command-wide attention.-The Baltimore Sun David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press

Lucent and fair . . . Broder is utterly convincing . . . [and] will get credit for raising the first warning flag.-The New York Times Book Review A concise, cogent political analysis . . . This alarm-bell of a book deserves- and is likely to command-wide attention.-The Baltimore Sun David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press --

David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press Lucent and fair . . . Broder is utterly convincing . . . [and] will get credit for raising the first warning flag. -The New York Times Book ReviewA concise, cogent political analysis . . . This alarm-bell of a book deserves-and is likely to command-wide attention. -The Baltimore SunDavid Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press

Lucent and fair . . . Broder is utterly convincing . . . [and] will get credit for raising the first warning flag.-The New York Times Book Review A concise, cogent political analysis . . . This alarm-bell of a book deserves- and is likely to command-wide attention.-The Baltimore Sun David Broder lays out an insightful, compelling, and sobering scenario. -Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press --No Source

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David S. Broder, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and columnist, writers twice weekly for the Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 300 newspapers. He is a regular on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN's Inside Politics, and PBS's Washington Week in Review. He grew up in Chicago Heights, Illinois, and worked on the Bloomington (illinois) Pantagraph, Congressional Quarterly, the Washington Star, and the New York Times before joining the Post in 1966. He has covered every presidential election campagin since 1960. He is the author or coauthor of six previous books, most recetnly The Sysyten and the best-seller, Changing of the Guard. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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