Pinstripe Patronage by Tolchin, Martin

Pinstripe Patronage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594515927)

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Format: Hardcover
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Pinstripe Patronage by Tolchin, Martin

Pinstripe Patronage

$140.00
Pinstripe Patronage by Tolchin, Martin

Pinstripe Patronage

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support - is alive and well in 21st century America. This book examines the little understood patronage system, showing how it is used by 'pinstripe' elites to subvert the democratic process. 'Pinstripe patronage' thrives on the billions of dollars distributed by government for the privatisation of public services. Martin and Susan Tolchin introduce us to government grants specified for the use of an individual, corporation, or community and 'hybrid agencies', with high salaries for top executives and board members. In return for this corporate welfare pinstipe partons giving politicians the ever-increasing funds needed to conduct their political campaigns. As budget cuts begin to bite, the authors argue that it is time to clamp down on the corrupt practice of pinstripe patronage.

Author: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin
ISBN-10: 1594515921
ISBN-13: 9781594515927
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.62w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011
Library Journal 09/15/2010 pg. 90
Publishers Weekly 11/22/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 148
By Martin Tolchin
By Martin Tolchin
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Martin Tolchin capped a forty-year career at The New York Times, where he reported on Congress and politics, by becoming founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Hill newspaper. He also was the founding senior publisher and editor of Politico. He is now a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Susan J. Tolchin is Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and the author of The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation (Westview Press, 1996 and 1998), and Women in the U.S. Congress, among several other books. Together the Tolchins have written seven previous books, most recently, A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom (Westview Press, 2009-new in paperback).

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