Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

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Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

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Politicians lie gleefully, making wild claims that can be shared instantly with millions on social media.

He shows how antiquated electoral laws are broken with impunity, how secretive lobbying bends our politics out of shape, and how Silicon Valley tech giants have colluded in selling out democracy. And it has been able to do this in what has turned out to be a regulatory vacuum – with laws, penalties and overseeing authorities that are no longer fit for purpose. This title tells the story of how undisclosed donations – ‘dark money’ – have infiltrated British politics, undermining public faith in democracy and fuelling the rise of populism across the West. Praise for Democracy for Sale: ‘Thorough, gripping and vitally important’ Oliver Bullough’A brilliant description of the dark underbelly of modern democracy. The first is the massive concentration of corporate power and private wealth that’s been under way since the 1970s, together with a corresponding increase in inequality, social exclusion and polarisation in most western societies; the second is the astonishing penetration of “dark money” into democratic politics; and the third is the revolutionary transformation of the information ecosystem in which democratic politics is conducted – a transformation that has rendered the laws that supposedly regulated elections entirely irrelevant to modern conditions.And in the UK, Martin Moore’s landmark study Democracy Hacked showed how, in the space of just one election cycle, authoritarian governments, wealthy elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes and turn social networks into battlefields. This is a story of ideology and finance – of how the long-term Hayekian, neoliberal project has played out on these shores. The middle section of the book explores how dark money has amplified the growing influence of the American right on British politics.

And if that’s true, the key question for us at this moment in history is: how might our current system fail? It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and populists in many other countries are the beneficiaries.Instead, the referendum and its aftermath have revealed something far more fundamental and systemic. This is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The existential threat to liberal democracy comes from the fact that those who have successfully exploited some inadequacies of the current regulatory system – who include Boris Johnson and his current wingman, Cummings – have absolutely no incentive to fix the system from which they have benefited.



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