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Title: Democracy Derailed: The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money [Apr 05, 2.
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0151004641
ISBN 13: 9780151004645
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Like New
Weight: 16 ounces

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A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist offers an analysis of the political initiative process, which began with California's Proposition 13 and which involves citizens voting directly on new laws, arguing that this process has been manipulated by the lobbyists and big money.

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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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