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100	1		_aFormisano, Ronald P., _d1939- _942362
245	1	0	_aAmerican oligarchy : _bthe permanent political class / _cRon Formisano.
264		1	_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2017.
300			_axi, 270 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490			_3Book collections on Project MUSE
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-264) and index.
505			_a""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction Beyond Plutocracy: Becoming an Aristocracy""; ""Chapter 1 Meet the Political Class""; ""Chapter 2 Our One Percent Government, Congress, and Its Adjuncts: The Way to Wealth""; ""Chapter 3 Is the Political Class Corrupt?""; ""Chapter 4 The Permanent Campaign and the Permanent Political Class""; ""Chapter 5 Political Class Adaptation and Expansion""; ""Chapter 6 The Political Class in a Poor State""; ""Chapter 7 The Profitable World of Nonprofits""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
520			_a"A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation 's history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige and power, it enables the creation of an aristocracy of massive inherited wealth that is accumulating immense political power. In a muckraking tour de force reminiscent of Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and C. Wright Mills, [this book] demonstrates the way the corrupt culture of the permanent political class extends down to the state and local level. [The author] breaks down the ways this class creates economic inequality and how its own endemic corruption infects our entire society. [The author] delves into the work of not just politicians but lobbyists, consultants, appointed bureaucrats, pollsters, celebrity journalists, behind-the-scenes billionaires, and others. Their shameless pursuit of wealth and self-aggrandizement, often at taxpayer expense, rewards channeling the flow of income and wealth to elites. That inequality in turn has choked off social mobility and made a joke of meritocracy. As [the author] shows, these forces respond to the oligarchy 's power and compete to bask in the presence of the .01 percent. They also exacerbate the dangerous instability of an American democracy divided between extreme wealth and extreme poverty."-
650		0	_aOligarchy _zUnited States.
650		4	_aOligarquía _zEstados Unidos _911945
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States.
650		4	_aCultura política _zEstados Unidos _92268
650		0	_aPolitical corruption _zUnited States.
650		4	_aCorrupción Política _zEstados Unidos _9157
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xPolítica y gobierno _ySiglo XXI _99887
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