Books written by Michael Pertschuk
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The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will Into Political Power
Vinny DeMarco might be a latter-day Don Quixote except that he tilts his lance at real obstacles to social justice: lobby-locked state legislatures and Congress, stonewalling the public will. And...
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When the Senate Worked for Us: The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
For his insider account, Pertschuk draws on many interviews, as well as his fifteen years serving on the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee that Senator Warren Magnuson chaired and as the committee's Democratic Staff Director.
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Revolt Against Regulation: The Rise and Pause of the Consumer Movement
See also Democracy Grassroots organizations : for business , 57–62 ; for citizen participation in government , 126-33 Grinstein , Gerald , 24-25 Hackes , Peter , 37 Harlow , Bryce , 34,57 , 147 Harris , Fred , 133 Harris , Richard , 23 ...
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When the Senate Worked for Us: The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
For his insider account, Pertschuk draws on many interviews, as well as his fifteen years serving on the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee that Senator Warren Magnuson chaired and as the committee's Democratic Staff Director.
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Giant Killers
Examining the way lobbyists operate with Congress and the federal bureaucracy, this study chronicles the defeat of the Tabacco Institute and American Medical Association lobbies and the victory for the 1982 Voting Rights Act and the halt of ...
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The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will Into Political Power
"Read this and don your armor."--Robert Reich