A CITIZEN LEGISLATURE (with Michael Phillips) outlines a bold solution to the election-finance corruption of American electoral politics – by reviving, with modern sampling techniques, the ancient Athenian practice of selecting representatives by random lot. As timid campaign-finance reforms are repeatedly tried and predictably fail, this radical solution gains in appeal.Back in print in a joint edition with A PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT, by Keith Sutherland: www/Imprint-Academic.com/sortition. For free download of A CITIZEN LEGISLATURE, go to:http://www.well.com/user/mp/citleg.html
With Christine Leefeldt, Callenbach co-authored The Art of Friendship, an interview-based book now out of print and available only from used-book sources like www.abebooks.com or www.Amazon.com.
Publisher’s Lunch: How Publishers Think and What Authors Can Do About It. A romantic comedy in dialogue, full of information about the often painful realities of publishing. Out of print but available used from www.abebooks.com or www.amazon.com.
EcoManagement: The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business (Berrett-Koehler Publishers), by Callenbach and others. Available from www.bkconnection.com, www.abebooks.com or www.amazon.com.
Film Quarterly: Callenbach was the founding editor of this journal of film criticism and edited it until 1991; he is still on its Editorial Board. To subscribe or download a sample copy, click here:
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