<p>A guide for policy advocates and activists to influencing Congress and the legislative process. Outlines the overall political environment and the specific rules and procedures of the two houses, and examines strategies for getting an idea or program passed into law. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Legislative Strategy: Shaping Public Policy

Bertram Gross

Edward V. Schneier

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Congress Today

Gross (emeritus, political science, City University of New York) wrote The Legislative Struggle in 1953, precursor to the present work, which examines the legislative process and legislative outputs from three interrelated perspectives: the social and political setting of Congress; the structure and rules of Congress as an organization; and the interests, motives, and strategies of policy advocates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called, "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically." In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask", a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent corporate authoritarianism threatened to subvert constitutional democracy. But unlike the violent and sudden usurpations that led to fascism in the days of Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese empire builders, this new "smiling" American breed of fascism was gaining ground through gradual and silent infringements on the freedoms of the American people. First published over three decades ago, Friendly Fascism is uncannily predictive of the threats and realities of current political and economic power trends. Author Bertram Gross, a presidential adviser during the New Deal era, traces the history and logic of declining democracy in First World countries and pinpoints capitalist transnational growth and inappropriate responses to global crises as the sources of late 20th-century despotism in America. Gross issues ever-urgent warnings about what happens when big business and big government become bedfellows - chronic inflation, recurring recession, overt and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of the environment - and simultaneously proffers a practical shift of perspective that could help US citizens build a truer democracy. He imagines an America in which heroes are no longer needed and the leadership is a group of non-elitists who "recognize the ignorance of the wise as well as the wisdom of the ignorant".

Friendly Fascism

Business & Money

Economics

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