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Uncovering the Dome

Amy Klobuchar

Was the public interest served in Minnesota’s ten-year political brawl over the Metrodome? This case study tells the story of how a $55 million domed stadium called the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome came to be built in Minneapolis. More important, it offers an opportunity to explore the way things work in American politics: the shifting coalitions and uncertain outcomes; the scattered interests and chaotic atmosphere; the differing conceptions of what serves the public interest. This is not an idealized version of how things should work in American politics, but a story of how they do work!
 

$20.95 list, 177 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-218-6

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-218-6

© 1982

Table of Contents

1. The Stadium: 1971–1973

2. A Government Responds

3. The Stadium: 1973–1977

4. The Interest Group Battle

5. The Stadium: 1977–1978

6. The Delegates Decide

7. The Stadium: 1979–1982

8. From the Capitol to the Cogwheels