TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosefielde,Steven
AU  - Mills,Daniel Quinn
TI  - Democracy and its elected enemies: American political capture and economic decline 
SN  - 9780511998461 (ebook)
AV  - JK275 .R67 2013
U1  - 320.97309/051 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Part I: The Challenge of American Politocracy. 1. Hard times; 2. Democracy; 3. Politocracy; 4. Silver lining?; 5. Road to ruin; 6. Burden and spoils; 7. Treadmill of reform -- Part II: How Politocracy Drives American Policy. 8. Subprime mortgage crisis; 9. Foreign imbroglios; 10. Transnationalism -- Part III: Democratic Retreat and Revival. 11. Global retreat; 12. Recovering lost ground
N2  - Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class and the non-political rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power, and provide an action plan for restoring 'true' democracy in which politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511998461
ER  -