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Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Teachout, Zephyr
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Political corruption > United States > History. Judicial corruption > United States > History. Political culture > United States. United States > Politics and government > Moral and ethical aspects. Judicial corruption. Political corruption. Political culture. Political ethics. United States. History.

Table of Contents:

Four snuff boxes and a horse
Intellectual influences on the framing conceptions
Removing temptations
An architecture of obstacles
Corrupt kings, corrupt judges, and the critics
Yazooism
Is bribery without a remedy?
The railroads, corruption, and judicial review
Corrupt lobbying
Treats, spoils, and the ballot with the flaming pink border
Teddy Roosevelt's vision and the courts
The jury decides
Operation Gemstone
Corrupt campaign contributions
Citizens United
The new snuff boxes
Abstraction, innocence, dissonance, complacency, and contempt
The revival of the American corruption principle
Possibilities for current reform
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Anti-corruption constitutional provisions
Appendix 2: Major twentieth-century anti-corruption law.