Taking the Risk Out of Democracy

This book examines the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses and its export to and adoption by other western democracies, chiefly the United Kingdom and Australia. Analyses right-wing propaganda strategies and programs put in place this century in the U.S. and Australia–programs designed to ’take the risk out of democracy’ by making the electorate ‘soft’ on business. Carey shows . . . how the risk to democracy is always construed by these campaigns as a risk to business interests.