TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potter, Wendell.
TI  - Nation on the take: how big money corrupts our democracy and what we can do about it
SN  - 9781632861115
U1  - 332.097POT 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Press
KW  - Political Science -- Government -- General; Money -- United States; Monetary policy -- United States -- Statistics; Banks and banking -- United States; Commercial crimes -- United States; Democracy -- United States; Economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how they spend their time. The marriage of great wealth and intense political influence has rendered our country unable to address our most pressing problems, from runaway government spending to climate change to the wealth gap. It also defines our daily lives: from the cars we drive to the air we breathe to the debt we owe
ER  -