For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America

by Loka Ashwood

A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for-profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans

Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye-opening assessment by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300215355
• ISBN13: 9780300215359
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"