Contributors explore the role of money in political campaigns. Corporate influence, soft money fund-raising, PACs, the role of the FCC, and First Amendment considerations, are among the topics addressed.
This book assumes that voters are the end users of campaign finance reform, and it questions whether average citizens really know what they are asking for or what they may get when they demand change.
A collection of documents and analysis focuses on the statutory, legal, and administrative dimensions of campaign financing, its regulation, and the potential for reform.
Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
Coleman and Manna's methods, data, and variables are discussed in John J. Coleman and Paul F. Manna, “Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy,” Journal of Politics 62 (2000): 763–65. 26. See ibid., 766.
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Nixon then appointed Solicitor General Robert H. Bork as acting attorney general, and Bork did fire Cox. The resignations and firing took place on October 20, 1973, a Saturday, and came to be known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
By 1916, this practice became common, with nearly $1 million raised and spent by shadow party committees to support Woodrow Wilson or Charles Evan Hughes. These committees included the Woodrow Wilson Independent League; the Wilson ...
The States of Campaign Finance Reform
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