# Democracy in Chains > [!note] Stub — fill out [[Nancy MacLean]]'s 2017 book (*Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America*) tracing the intellectual lineage from economist [[James Buchanan]]'s public-choice theory to the [[Charles Koch]] network's strategy of incremental, stealthy [[State Capture]]. A key source for Dave Troy's Coda. Expand (note: the book drew scholarly disputes over some interpretations). Expand.