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A review of Kevin O'Leary's book, Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America.

Concluding remarks by J.H. Snider, a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and President of iSolon.org, delivered to Harvard University Canada Program's Conference on Comparing the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States: Defining, Measuring, and Fixing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 10, 2008. The remarks divide the substance of the conference into three categories: Democratic Deficits, Reforms to Fix the Democratic Deficits, and Reforms to Reform the Process of Fixing the Democratic Deficits. Canada's great democratic innovation, the creation of citizens assemblies on electoral reform, fits in this third category, Reforms to Reform the Process of Fixing the Democratic Deficits.

Concluding remarks by J.H. Snider, a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and President of iSolon.org, delivered to Harvard University Canada Program's Conference on Comparing the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States: Defining, Measuring, and Fixing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 10, 2008. The remarks divide the substance of the conference into three categories: Democratic Deficits, Reforms to Fix the Democratic Deficits, and Reforms to Reform the Process of Fixing the Democratic Deficits. Canada's great democratic innovation, the creation of citizens assemblies on electoral reform, fits in this third category, Reforms to Reform the Process of Fixing the Democratic Deficits.

A review of Kevin O'Leary's book, Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America.

The extent to which broadcasters' control over local TV programming affects politicians' behavior, particularly with regard to the creation of information policy, is investigated. Informed by principal-agent theory, it is claimed that a "paradox of news bias" currently exists between local broadcasters & viewers. An overview of high- & low-information reasoning used by politicians to determine the objectivity of media outlets emphasizes local broadcasters' strategies for overcoming claims of media bias. Noting the difficulties that politicians may experience in uncovering media bias, a rational choice perspective is employed to demonstrate how local broadcasters act opportunistically while preventing viewers & politicians from uncovering such behavior. Based on the negotiations surrounding the 1996 Telecommunications Act, a detailed framework for gathering evidence of news media influence over information policymaking is provided. Various directions for future research are also offered, eg, studying the influence of an entire industry, not individual companies, upon policymaking. 2 Figures. J. W. Parker