TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teachout,Zephyr Rain
TI  - Corruption in America: from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United 
SN  - 9780674050402 (alk. paper)
AV  - JK 2249 T253c 2014
U1  - 364.1/3230973 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Judicial corruption
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Corrupción Política
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Corrupción del poder judicial
KW  - Cultura política
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Política y gobierno
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-358) and index; Four snuff boxes and a horse -- Intellectual influences on the framing conceptions -- Removing temptations -- An architecture of obstacles -- Corrupt kings, corrupt judges, and the critics -- Yazooism -- Is bribery without a remedy? -- The railroads, corruption, and judicial review -- Corrupt lobbying -- Treats, spoils, and the ballot with the flaming pink border -- Teddy Roosevelt's vision and the courts -- The jury decides -- Operation Gemstone -- Corrupt campaign contributions -- Citizens United -- The new snuff boxes -- Abstraction, innocence, dissonance, complacency, and contempt -- The revival of the American corruption principle -- Possibilities for current reform -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anti-corruption constitutional provisions -- Appendix 2: Major twentieth-century anti-corruption law
N2  - When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
ER  -