Notes
1 James O'Conner, The Fiscal Crisis of the State (New York: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
2 E.E. Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1975).
3 “With more than 2,000 members, ALEC is the nation's largest non-partisan, individual public–private membership association of state legislators,” < http://www.alec.org/>.
4 George Soros is the chair of Soros Fund Management LLC and founded The Open Society Foundation; Van Jones is the author of The Green Collar Economy (New York: Harper Collins, 2008) and an Obama administration advisor, SDS is a student activist organization founded by the New Left in the 1960s; ACORN is a group of community-based organizations in the United States that advocates for low and middle-income families on a variety of social issues.
5 Suzanne Mettler, “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” Perspectives on Politics 8:3 (2010), pp. 803–824.
6 Garrison Keillor, “We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore,” These Times, August 26, 2004, < http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/979/>.
7 Michael Schwartz, “Tomgram: Weapons of Mass Disruption,” February 15, 2011, < http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175355/>.