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Title

For-profit democracy : why the government is losing the trust of rural America / Loka Ashwood.

Author

Publisher	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright	©2018

Description

xv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

LOCATION	CALL NUMBER	VOL	BARCODE	LAST CHECKIN	STATUS
EI-Adult Collection	307.72 ASH		30626003329691	(none)	AVAILABLE

BIBLIOGRAPHY	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-285) and index.
Summary	"Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye-opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed-race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self-defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Public opinion -- United States.
	Rural population -- United States -- Attitudes.
	Sociology, Rural -- United States.
	Public-private sector cooperation -- Georgia.
	Nuclear power plants -- Georgia.
	United States -- Politics and government -- Public opinion.
	United States -- Rural conditions -- History -- 21st century.
Series	Yale Agrarian studies series
ISBN	9780300215359

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