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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Lessig’s Republic, Lost Reviewed
Lawrence Lessig’s Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop it is reviewed in the current issue of The Washington Monthly by Walter Shapiro, who was until recently Salon.com’s Washington bureau chief. Wittily titled “The Campaign-Industrial Complex,” the … Continue reading
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Alabama’s Immigration Law Makes This American Life
A 35-minute segment of the episode of This American Life that was broadcast this morning by KUT sheds light on Alabama’s anti-immigrant law: Act One. Alien Experiment. Last Summer, Alabama passed HB56, the most sweeping immigration bill in the country. … Continue reading
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Book Club’s Current Book Featured on “Moyers & Company”
The book we’re reading—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics—is said to be the “backbone” of the first three episodes of the new TV series “Moyers & Company.” The show is broadcast on KLRU-HD (over-the-air channel 18-1) Fridays at … Continue reading
Occupy Courts in Austin TX success!!!
Almost fifty local and not so local citizens showed up at the Federal Courthouse in Austin Texas to remember the travesty put upon the American Democracy by the 2010 Supreme Court decision on F.E.C. v Citizens United to allow the … Continue reading
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Examining our assumptions about money in politics
On January 7th, we hosted Prof. Brian Roberts from the UT Dep’t of Government, who has a different take on money in politics than perhaps what most of us are used to hearing. He began by touching on the history … Continue reading
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Lobbying Returns 22,000%
I’ve uploaded a paper—Raquel Alexander, Susan Scholz, and Stephen Mazza, “Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures”—which was published in 2009 in the Journal of Law and Politics. The key finding: In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures … Continue reading
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“Republic, Lost” discussion sheds light on what citizens can do about campaign finance distortions
After the 2006 mid-term election, a friend emailed me an internet link to a presentation about how money was corrupting Congress. I knew that this presentation, by a professor named Lawrence Lessig, was onto something, but what could I do … Continue reading
