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Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teachout, Zephyr
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Political corruption > United States > History.
Judicial corruption > United States > History.
Political culture > United States.
United States > Politics and government > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Four snuff boxes and a horse
  • Changing the frame
  • Removing temptations
  • Yazoo
  • Is bribery without a remedy?
  • Railroad ties
  • The forgotten law of lobbying
  • The gilded age
  • Two kinds of sticks
  • The jury decides
  • Operation Gemstone
  • A West Virginia state of mind
  • Citizens United
  • The new snuff boxes
  • Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain
  • The anticorruption principle
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Anticorruption constitutional provisions
  • Appendix 2: Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century anticorruption laws.