BEATING BACK The Corporate Attack

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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/>.