Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty (Hoover Institution Press Publication) - Softcover

Bolick, Clint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817945520 ISBN 13: 9780817945527

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 2004

Synopsis

In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"—and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.

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From the Publisher:

Those who declare the era of big government over, says Clint Bolick, are dead wrong. In Leviathan, Bolick shows that, although the national government has downsized somewhat since the Reagan era, local government has grown exponentially. This ever-expanding beast, he explains, saps our nation’s productive vitality and threatens us with "grassroots tyranny."

Drawing from his experience as an attorney with the Institute for Justice, Bolick uses illuminating cases from the litigation trenches to show how powerful local government has infringed on freedom of speech, freedom of commerce and enterprise, private property rights, and even the simple right to be left alone. He explains how locally controlled government school systems reflect the values of powerful interest groups and why—despite spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars—they are unable to provide the basics of education.

Bolick ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these out-of-control bureaucracies.

Clint Bolick is research fellow at the Hoover Institution and president of and general counsel for the Alliance for School Choice, the nation’s foremost organization advocating school choice programs.

About the Author:

Clint Bolick is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves as the director of the Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0817945520
• ISBN 13: 9780817945527
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208