The Corporate Overlords Will Be Kind Campaign Finance Representation And Corporate Led Democracy
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The Corporate Overlords Will Be Kind Campaign Finance Representation And Corporate Led Democracy
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Author : Radu George Dumitrescu
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2021-07-06
The Corporate Overlords Will Be Kind Campaign Finance Representation And Corporate Led Democracy written by Radu George Dumitrescu and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Political Science categories.
‘The Corporate Overlords will be Kind’ is a unique book in that it makes use of a multi-pronged approach – journalistic, legal, theoretical – to find, document, and explain instances in which well-known corporations such as Wal-Mart, Uber, McDonald’s, Airbnb, Gillette, Nike and others have involved themselves, as ‘artificial persons’, in political and social debates involving aspects such as gender, racism, sexual minorities, and gun ownership. This book argues that these transnational, multi-billion-dollar corporations that thrive in the globalized world market are forced to take explicitly political stances by the very environment in which they activate and by the consumers whom they serve, taking on the latter’s values and opinions and representing them to retain them as customers. ‘The Corporate Overlords will be Kind’ advances that corporations are now – and will increasingly be – the loudest voices in the political market square of the United States, but that such a situation is not necessarily a cause for concern. This book thus departs from the traditional scholarly views of Citizens United (the 2010 landmark decision of the Supreme Court which granted free speech to corporations as persons) as a woe to democracy, and argues that the ageless, deathless, genderless, nationless corporations will be the political representatives of the futures, not political parties. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students specializing in social sciences, particularly politics, history, sociology, and law. Political professionals and journalists may also be interested in the book, in addition to the general reader with interest in politics.
Gangs Of America
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Author : Ted Nace
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Gangs Of America written by Ted Nace and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? In "Gangs of America", Ted Nace traces the rise of corporate power through a series of fascinating stories, each organized around a different facet of the central question: "How did corporations get more rights than people?" The result is an illuminating account of the people and events that have shaped this puzzling, endlessly evolving entity. -- From publisher's description.
The New Corporation
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Author : Joel Bakan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-09-22
The New Corporation written by Joel Bakan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Business & Economics categories.
A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. “A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Over the last decade and a half, business leaders have been calling for a new kind of capitalism. With income inequality soaring, wages stagnating, and a climate crisis escalating, they realized that they had to make social and environmental values the very core of their messaging. The problem is corporations are still, first and foremost, concerned with their bottom line. In lucid and engaging prose, Joel Bakan documents how increasing corporate freedom encroaches on individual liberty and democracy. Through deep research and interviews with both top executives and their sharpest critics, he exposes the inhumanity and destructive force of the current order--profit-driven privatization subverting the public good, governments neglecting duties to protect the environment, the increasing alienation we experience as every aspect of life is economized, and how the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare the unjust fault lines of our corporate-led society. Beyond diagnosing major problems, in The New Corporation Bakan narrates a hopeful path forward. He reveals how citizens around the world are fighting back and making gains in ways that bolster democracy and benefit ordinary citizens rather than the corporate elite.
Corporations Are Not People
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Author : Jeffrey D Clements
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-18
Corporations Are Not People written by Jeffrey D Clements and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-18 with categories.
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power - but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies...
Democracy
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Author : Inter-parliamentary Union
language : en
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Release Date : 1998
Democracy written by Inter-parliamentary Union and has been published by Inter-Parliamentary Union this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Democracy categories.
Principles to realization - Cherif Bassiouni
Weapons Of Math Destruction
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Author : Cathy O'Neil
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Weapons Of Math Destruction written by Cathy O'Neil and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Political Science categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword “A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial Times NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • Wired • Fortune • Kirkus Reviews • The Guardian • Nature • On Point We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination—propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.
Democracy In The South
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Author : Brendan M. Howe
language : en
Publisher: UN
Release Date : 2010
Democracy In The South written by Brendan M. Howe and has been published by UN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
Democracy in the South is the first international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world. Nine case studies, three each from Africa, Latin America and Asia, shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by democratizing countries, mostly from the perspective of emerging theorists working in their home countries.--Publisher's description.
The Dark Side Of Democracy
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Author : Michael Mann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Dark Side Of Democracy written by Michael Mann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
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Challenging Authority
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Author : Frances Fax Piven
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008-07-11
Challenging Authority written by Frances Fax Piven and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-11 with Political Science categories.
Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.
Open Access
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Author : Peter Suber
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-07-20
Open Access written by Peter Suber and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.