Lindblom - The Market System - Afghan Journalists' Committee

288 NotesThe quotations on elite control of mass in the Renaissance arefrom John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance(New York: Atheneum, 1944), 464, 471.I hardly know how to choose from a near torrent of publicationsthat in recent years have documented the existence of massiveprograms of propaganda, “education,” and special appeals directedat mass by elites. On corporate control and use of the massmedia, see Dean Alger, Megamedia: How Giant CorporationsDominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and EndangerDemocracy (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). DonHerzog’s Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders (Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998) looks back two hundredyears. Amitai Etzioni, Capital Corruption: The New Attack onAmerican Democracy (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1984), takes a broad view of a corruption of mind and politics fromvarious sources. See also Beder, Global Spin, above. And for a longhistorical view of public discourse since Plato, see, by all means,Paul E. Corcoran, Political Language and Rhetoric (St. Lucia,Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1979).Charles E. Lindblom, Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attemptto Understand and Shape Society (New Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 1990), chapters 5–7, has more to say on the assaulton the mind.On class relations, Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong explorewhat they see as a move from middle-class to two-class society inThe New Class Society (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield,1999).Chapter 16. Necessary to Democracy?The quotation from a British member of Parliament on the workingclasses becoming masters is from Robert McKenzie and AllanSilver, Angels in Marble: Working Class Conservatives in UrbanEngland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 5.A profound historical study of relations between market systemand democracy is Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorshipand Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of theModern World (Boston: Beacon, 1966).