Consumerization of Politics and Government
...elections become exercises in branding rather than substantive choice.
‘The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter’
2020-09 Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward (my Unfinished keynote)
A Tyranny Years in the Making
All Politics Is Personal (2017, xlnt)
America’s fundamental political vision transformed: from protecting citizen sovereignty to maximizing consumer welfare.
Barry Lynn: How We Went from Citizens to Consumers
Bork Reframed Antitrust as Protecting Consumers with Low Prices, Eliminating Other Harms from Consideration
Can Democrats Be 'People-First' If Their Campaigns Value People Last? (xlnt)
Citizens Are Now Mere Consumers
Consumer Politics Failed in 2020
Consumerism Broke Town Meetings and Their Connection to Representatives
Ctrl+Alt+Del (rebooting democracy)
Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public (2002)
Eisenhower, an Unlikely Pioneer of TV Ads
Ephemera Conference: Politics of Consumption
Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies
Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics
How this 30-year-old book predicted todays’ politics.
How to Fix California’s Democracy Crisis
Idiots Focus on Self, Ignore the Common
Individualism Sold Us off the Common Good
Obama vs Romney as Soda Cans
Policy Makers Replaced "Citizens" with "Consumers, " Thus Changing Policy Goals
Political Campaigns Are Treated as Mass Marketing Exercises
Political parties are simply “hawking a commodity—the candidates—on the market, ” he wrote. Voters are just “shopping among the available commodities.”
Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (2020)
Saving or Fixing Democracy
Subject to Consumer to Citizen
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (2013)
The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making
The Selling of Donald J. Trump
The Selling of the President (1969)
Trump and the True Meaning of ‘Idiot’ (xlnt)
Trump Is Winning the Online War (info rich)
Trump’s one-click political ideology: His message is appealing in its simplicity, but there’s nothing behind it
Trumpism is a culmination of the long-developing dysfunctions of consumer culture
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
What Gucci Can Teach the Democrats
What happens when these tools for maximizing clicks and engagement creep into the political sphere?
Big G Government vs Little g governance
Consumerization of Civic Life
Consumerization of War and Violence
Why Doesn’t Politics Focus on Deep Relationships?
2021-11-18 OGM Check-in Call
2024-02 OGM Series Exploring What Works in Governance (4 calls)
B2G (Business to Government)
Building Trust in Governments
Capitalism Is Very Political
Classification of the Functions of Government
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007)
Consumerism Prepared Americans for Trump
Consumerization (playlist)
Consumerization of Childhood and Parenting
Consumerization of Christmas
Consumerization of Culture (Art)
Consumerization of Developing Countries
Consumerization of Economics
Consumerization of Education
Consumerization of Finance, Wealth and Money
Consumerization of Gender and Identity
Consumerization of Health Care (including Mental Health)
Consumerization of History
Consumerization of Law and Order
Consumerization of News and Information
Consumerization of Our Goals and Beliefs
Consumerization of Our Homes
Consumerization of People and Human Relationships
Consumerization of Progress
Consumerization of Public Spaces
Consumerization of Religion
Consumerization of Science
Consumerization of Social Media
Consumerization of Sports
Consumerization of the Earth, Cities and The Commons
Consumerization of Travel
Controlling the Textbooks in Use
Dirty Tricks (political sabotage, ratfucking)
Embassies (Diplomatic Missions)
Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies (PPSIS)
Fiat Money (money w/o intrinsic value)
Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator (2013)
Government (Compelling State) Interest
Government Affairs (Relations)
Government Finance Instruments
Governments Clamping Down on Citizen Communication
Governments Endorsing Open Source
Governments Funding the Arts
Governments' Role in Innovation
History of Political Thought
I’m a governance minimalist, except…
IGOs (InterGovernmental Organizations)
Lessons in Political Science
Manufacturing Contempt, or the Commoditization of Practically Everything
Milestone Political Events
mindshare Internet Campaigns
Modern Political Power (in the Putin/Trump era)
National (Government, Sovereign) Debt
Pejorative Political Terms (W page deleted)
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)
Political (Party) Platforms
Political Campaign Donations
Political Corruption (in Governments and Countries)
Political Magazines (Left)
Political Magazines (Right)
Political Repression (and Persecution)
Politically Correct Terms
Politics and Government May Be Replaced by Effective Self-Governance
Politics is the art of the possible.
Politics Is Ethics Done in Public
Politics of Classification
Politics Without Principle
Reformcard: Political Reform Scorecard
Seven Mountains of Culture and Society
Sovereign Cryptocurrencies
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Consumerization of Politics and Government