Anand Giridharadas "The Persuaders"
LA Review of Books
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The Pro-Democracy Movement's Transactional Approach to Electioneering
"It takes more time than a kind of brief provocation to get people to believe that we might be able to reinvent the world," he says. "I come ask for your vote every two and four years, I feverishly ask you for money in the run up to those elections first five times a day and then 25 times a day towards the end." But it's essentially a transactional approach vote for me, give me $10. He adds: "In a way what I'm suggesting is a more kind of sustained presence in people's lives as a pro-democracy movement"
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