Captive State by George Monbiot

Captive State by George Monbiot

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Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. As institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contest between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.

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Captive State by George Monbiot

Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. As institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contest between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.
George Monbiot has been named by The Evening Standard as one of the twenty-five most influential people in Britain and by The Independent on Sunday as one of the forty international prophets of the twenty-first century. He is the author of Captive State: The corporate Takeover of Britain, and the investigative travel books, Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a column for The Guardian and is Honorary Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Keele, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, University of East London.
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ISBN 13 9780333901649
ISBN 10 0333901649
Title Captive State
Author George Monbiot
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2000-09-22
Number of pages 415
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