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The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite is Governing America
Written by James R Copland
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In this timely book, a legal scholar discusses how unelected actors have assumed control of the American republic?and where we need to go to chart a corrective course.
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James R Copland
James R. Copland is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where he has directed legal-policy research since 2003. He holds a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Yale, as well as degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has awarded his research on civil litigation, and the National Association of Corporate Directors has designated him to its "Directorship 100" list of the individuals most influential over U.S. corporate governance.
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