Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

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The first is the massive concentration of corporate power and private wealth that’s been under way since the 1970s, together with a corresponding increase in inequality, social exclusion and polarisation in most western societies; the second is the astonishing penetration of “dark money” into democratic politics; and the third is the revolutionary transformation of the information ecosystem in which democratic politics is conducted – a transformation that has rendered the laws that supposedly regulated elections entirely irrelevant to modern conditions. And again it leaves one wondering why there was so little media exploration of the origins and financing of that particular little cabal. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Democracy For Sale : Dark Money and Dirty Politics Geoghegan, Peter More by this author.

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. And in the UK, Martin Moore’s landmark study Democracy Hacked showed how, in the space of just one election cycle, authoritarian governments, wealthy elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes and turn social networks into battlefields. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).Peter Geoghegan is a diligent, brilliant guide through a shadowy world of dark money and digital disinformation stretching from Westminster to Washington, and far beyond. This is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. The middle section of the book explores how dark money has amplified the growing influence of the American right on British politics. One of the most depressing parts of this narrative is the bland indifference of most mainstream UK media to these scandalous events. Remarkable’ Observer, Book of the Week Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.That’s why those who see in the current difficulties of liberal democracies the stirrings of past monsters – Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, to name just three – are always looking in the wrong place. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and populists in many other countries are the beneficiaries.