Lobbycratic Governance - Softcover

Godfrey Harris

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ISBN 10: 0935047867 ISBN 13: 9780935047868

Publisher: The Americas Group, 2016

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After the Kennedy assassination, the loss of the Vietnam War, and the Nixon resignation, many voters dropped out of active involvement with government. This permitted large organizations to fill the void, aided by term limits and Citizens United, which in turn allowed lobbyists and technocrats to use their legal power and unlimited funds to takeover the machinery of government. With lobbyists and technocrats, supported by their lawyers, controlling government operations, politicians have become concierges and enablers, not policy makers. Given this state of affairs, voters have lost the ability to influence government through their representatives. But they have a chance to get that influence back by bringing to the fore a controversial, but effective, electoral technique.

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About the Author:

Godfrey Harris has been a public policy consultant based in Los Angeles, California, since 1968. He began consulting on government affairs after teaching American and comparative government at UCLA and Rutgers; serving as an intelligence officer on a U.S. Army post in the Northeast; a U.S. foreign service officer in Bonn, London, and Washington; an organizational specialist in President Lyndon Johnson s Executive Office and as a project manager for an international financial company in Geneva. In all of these positions, Harris studied the people and programs of government to understand how they work, where they are vulnerable, and how they can be changed. He has applied his knowledge to countless projects for such clients as the Departments of State, Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development as well as the London Chamber of Commerce and the Foreign Policy Association of Panama. Harris has concentrated on politics his entire career. As President of Harris/Ragan Management Group, he has focused the firm s activities on projects that offer alternative solutions to matters of community concern. As such, he has served as a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for various interest groups, as the manager of several election campaigns, and as an advisor to private companies dealing with government at all levels. Harris has written 75 other books on his own or with associates. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

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I am amazed at your rhetoric, style and the contents of the book. I are sharing it with a friend [as we travel] and neither of us can put the book down! --Ron Thompson, Head of the True Green Alliance, South Africa

[The book] is very good and offered some ideas I hadn't thought about. I'll recommend it in the Newsletter. --Bob Weisblut, President, International Ivory Society

Told with humor and conviction... --Angela King, Publisher

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