From Kleptocracy to Democracy: How Citizens Can Take Back Local Government (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781516571499)

From Kleptocracy to Democracy: How Citizens Can Take Back Local Government provides students with a critical examination of the large-scale political corruption that looted Bell, California between 1993 and 2010. For 17 years, some city officials paid themselves more than a million dollars a year, using the police department as a "for profit" vehicle for collecting fines, and issuing over $100 million in bonds. They turned the city into their own private cash machine

Author: Fred Smoller
ISBN-10: 1516571495
ISBN-13: 9781516571499
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2018
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d