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An interview with the author of Grassroots for Hire, based on his doctoral thesis, https://qualpolicomm.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/q-a-with-ed-wa...

"Walker shows how repertoires of participation originally developed by advocacy organizations, electoral campaigns, and social movements are commercialized by public affairs consultants who offer them as professional services ... The result is an increasingly “subsidized public” where selective incentivization and rational prospecting by public affairs consultants looking to mobilize support for their clients’ interests work to get people involved in particular political processes."



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