For Wednesday:
- Tocqueville 189-203, 513-524.
- Alinsky chapter (on Canvas). Don't worry: it's easy reading.
In Federalist 10, Madison described the sources of faction
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions... But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
Just about every group has an organization -- even this one.
DO NOT REDUCE INFLUENCE TO CAMPAIGN MONEY
- Includes only a fraction of total spending on efforts to influence government;
- Does not include state and local spending;
- Does not include campaign finance.
- Talking to members and staff
- Testimony
- Writing
- Advertising
- Public relations
- Grassroots and Grasstops
- Charity (in CA, "behesting")
- Funding think tanks
Ballot measures: Dialysis example and SEIU
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