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Vote.com /

Title: Vote.com / Dick Morris.
Author: Morris, Dick.
Publication: Los, Angeles, CA. : Renaissance Books ; [s.l] : distributed by St. Martin's Press, c1999.

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Description

xxiii, 236 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

How big-money lobbyists and the media are losing their influence, and the Internet is giving power back to the people
Vote dot com

Subjects

Note

On front of dust jacket cover: "How big-money lobbyists and the media are losing their influence, and the Internet is giving power back to the people."

Contents

Pt.1, How the Internet is taking over. Vox populi in cyberspace -- The incredible shrinking Congress -- Virtual elections -- The diminishing importance of money in elections -- The new voters: the X generation asserts its power -- How the Internet will change the media -- Campaigning to win the Fifth Estate -- The end of polling -- The weakening of political parties -- the lobbyists meet democracy -- State and local politics -- How the Internet will change the justice system -- International democracy -- The empire strikes back -- The inevitable backlash.
Pt.2, Lessons of the unimpeachment--how the Fourth Estate blew it. How the Fourth Estate took power -- The decline of the Fourth Estate -- The death of scandal -- Direct communication wins out -- How the politicians blew it: partisanship made Americans sick -- Congress is losing its power.

ISBN

1580631053

LCCN

99067457

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library