American Legislative Exchange Council Concepts

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

over time, especially as legislators barely take time to read some of the bills they pass. The most powerful of these organizations is probably the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. USA Today once called it “the nation’s best-known ‘model-bill factory,’” and it’s also a lobbying and influence-peddling operation

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.com/2023/12/02/opinion/this-is-how-to-make-homelessness-policy-work/ 9 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/03/alec-american-legislative-exchange-council-model-bills-republican-conservative-devos-gingrich/3162357002/ 10 https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-based-think-tank-upended-110000565.html 11 https://x.com/JTLonsdale

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words

the academy, think tanks, and media, until they became conventional wisdom. Other think tanks and lobbying groups that formed after the Powell memo included the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 1973, the Cato Institute in 1977, and the Manhattan Institute in 1978. Lobbying firms grew from a total of 175 in 1971 to

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their own future wage earnings, but with interest, or rather mandatory “tips,” paid to the lender.31 Thanks to right-wing-funded groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council, statehouses are regularly supplied with form legislation funded and drafted by industry, making it easier to conduct their business in the state. There are no

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, 193 “American creed,” 32, 42 American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 12–13, 32 American dream, xxiii American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 90, 91, 140, 154, 229, 314 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 91, 92, 214 American Motors, 76 American Republic, The (Berle), 81 American Revolution, 44, 357, 364 Americans for Prosperity, 307 Amini, Mahsa, 357 Anaconda

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words

Missouri, undercover investigations of factory farms are illegal. Nearly every major agricultural state has proposed similar legislation. A shadowy corporate-government partnership known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has proposed “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” to deter filming that is designed to “defame” such facilities or their owners.176 Any violators

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

by Linsey McGoey · 14 Apr 2015 · 324pp · 93,606 words

the rest of its student body even existed’.32 For companies such as K12 and ECOT, the primary vehicle for influencing state policy is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that has introduced dozens of model bills on digital education adopted by state legislatures across the US in recent years. ALEC is

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of labour for industrialists, 46–7; and students’ gap in test scores, 138; and voting rights, 45 Allen, Paul, 181–3 altruism, 48, 90, 146 American Legislative Exchange Council, 131–2, 200 Apotex, 103–4 Apple, 143, 246 Argentina, 188–9 Ashoka, 66, 68, 72 Asia: and Coca-Cola, 222–3; and World Food

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treatment of poor countries by IMF and World Bank, 171–2; and virtues of free-market, 239 education: and African Americans, 10, 54, 118; and American Legislative Exchange Council’s conservative agenda, 132; and Arne Duncan, 139; and Broad Foundation, 9, 122, 139; and charter schools, 118, 123–8, 131; and college acceptance rates

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Cargill partnership, 216; and Coca-Cola, 26–7, 222, 227–9; and Common Core, 137; and connections to Goldman Sachs, 215–6; and contributions to American Legislative Exchange Council, 132; and contributions to World Health Organization, 8, 224; and costly vaccines, 160–1; criticisms of, 21–8, 135, 136–7, 146–7; and donations

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words

protested against their project. Rather than adjust their project, talk with the protestors, or bribe officials to push their proposal through, they instead hired the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to lobby for measures to increase the length of prison sentences for protests related to “critical infrastructure”. They have made a decision that if

The Cigarette: A Political History

by Sarah Milov · 1 Oct 2019

, Powell’s vision of corporate activism had inspired new forms of lobbying. The Tobacco Institute and some individual cigarette manufacturers became important contributors to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the conservative nonprofit responsible for drafting and disseminating model legislation on a range of issues. In 1979, the executive director of ALEC wrote to

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.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/yngb0131. 124. “Cigarette Industry Environment,” n.d., Philip Morris Records, https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/pngb0131. 125. K. Teague, American Legislative Exchange Council, December 28, 1979, Tobacco Institute Records, UCSF Library, https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/gnlv0134. 126. Memorandum from Angle Walker, December 10, 1981, Tobacco

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, 275 AIDS, 268–270 Airline Deregulation Act, 174 airlines, 3, 164–165, 168, 171–175 Air Quality Act (1967), 185–186 alcohol, 23–24 ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), 272–273 Allen & Ginter, 16 AMA (American Medical Association), 119, 189, 242, 275 American Academy of Pediatrics, 366n84 American Airlines, 168 American Association for Respiratory

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020

, with the vote in California a week way, two hundred activists met at a National Tax Limitation Conference. An aide for one of sponsors, the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization controlled by Paul Weyrich that wrote conservative “model legislation” for state legislators to introduce, described tax limitation as the perfect issue to build

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subsidized conservatives to take otherwise unpaid internships at activist organizations, periodicals—and even unsuspecting federal agencies. Organizations for grown-ups were thriving, too—like the American Legislative Exchange Council, which, along with what New Right Report called a “coalition of pro-life, pro-Right-to-Work, pro-Defense, pro-gun, pro-free-enterprise, pro

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2, 2020. “cotton-picking legislators” “Homeowners Get Tax News, Vow to Back Prop. 13,” LAT, May 19, 1978. Tax Limitation Conference AP, May 22, 1978. American Legislative Exchange Council Dan Kaufman, The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2018

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, Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America (New York: Basic Books, 1989), 222; New Right Report, March 15, 1979, in RRPL, Box 86. American Legislative Exchange Council New Right Report, March 15, 1979. He had only lost Ibid., January 28, 1979. Ted Stevens Ian Shapiro, The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship

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Teachers, 165 American Graffiti (movie), 118–119 American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), 294, 298–300, 616 American Jewish Committee, 872, 873 American Legion, 256 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 313, 348 American Medical Association, 461, 899 American Motors, 677 American Security Council, 142 The American Sportsman (TV series), 453 The American Way of

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words

Finds,” New York Times, August 22, 2012. 7. The influence of private wealth on public decision making is perfectly reflected in the work of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful national lobby masquerading as a nonpartisan tax-deductible charity. ALEC has several thousand state legislators as members and represents more than forty corporations

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; and rural society, 64; and urban slums, 191 Air pollution, 130, 206, 382n72. See also Carbon emissions ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), 374n7 Alliance in the Alps, 132–133 al Qaeda, 124, 125 Amazon, 254 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 374n7 Americans for the Arts, 293 Anarchy, 12, 61 Annawadi, 182–183, 201 Antideclinists, 167–168 APAP (Association

The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

by Peter Temin · 17 Mar 2017 · 273pp · 87,159 words

, which supports corporate efforts to rebuild damaged cities, to the United States Institute for Peace, which supports defense spending here and abroad.11 The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, was formed in 1973 in order to influence state legislation. Charles and David Koch founded and funded ALEC as a nonprofit corporation

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his brother, David, is in fifth place in the 2015 Forbes 400, was energized by Powell’s secret memo of 1971. He started ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, in 1973. This state lobbying organization operates under the radar of most people interested in national politics because even interested observers cannot keep all states

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Corrections Corporation of America has spent over $20 million on political campaigns and lobbying and is continuing these efforts today. They also lobby through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the conservative, nonprofit organization founded and funded by the Koch brothers in 1973 and described in chapter 2. ALEC promoted model bills on mandatory

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Drugs and, 27, 37–38, 53, 55, 104, 106 Agee, James, 52 Agriculture. See Farmers Alcohol, 39, 154 Alexander, Michelle, xvi, 27 Al Qaeda, 143 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 19, 37, 83, 95, 110–111 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 133 Amtrak, 134 Anti-communism, 83 Antitrust standards, 31 Apple, 31, 82

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words

shrouded in secrecy to philanthropists who are supporting black colleges and indigent defense.” By 2013 both Google and Facebook followed Koch Industries and joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Founded in 1973 as the Conservative Caucus of State Legislators, ALEC states that its current goal is to further “the fundamental principles of limited