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100 1 _aTeachout, Zephyr.
245 1 0 _aCorruption in America :
_bfrom Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United
300 _aviii, 376 p.
505 0 _aFour 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.
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zUnited States
650 0 _aJudicial corruption
_zUnited States
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zUnited States
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