State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: The Evolution of ALEC: A Corporate-Conservative Anchor Across the States -- Chapter 1: "The Most Dangerously Effective Organization": A Smart ALEC is Born -- Chapter 2: Policy Plagiarism: A Window into ALEC's Reach Across the U.S. States -- Chapter 3: An Easy A with ALEC: ALEC's Appeal for State Legislators -- Chapter 4: "A Great Investment": ALEC's Appeal for Big Business -- · PART II: The Right-Wing Troika and its Foes -- Chapter 5: A Little Help from Their Friends: Introducing the Right-Wing Troika -- Chapter 6: Transforming the Nation One State at a Time: The Right-Wing Troika and State Policy -- Chapter 7: "Feisty Chihuahuas Versus a Big Gorilla": Why Left-Wing Efforts to Counter the Troika Have Floundered -- Conclusion: State Capture and American Democracy -- Technical Appendix -- Works Cited.

• | Author: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190870796
• | ISBN-13: 9780190870799