Campaign Finance Reform: Early Experiences of Two States That Offer Full Public Funding for Political Candidates
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.
Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
A collection of documents and analysis focuses on the statutory, legal, and administrative dimensions of campaign financing, its regulation, and the potential for reform.
In Unfree Speech, he presents a bold, convincing argument for the repeal of laws that regulate political spending and contributions, contending that they violate the right to free speech and ultimately diminish citizens' power.
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.
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 ...
Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 1935–1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Personal Papers Belmont Family Papers, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library Harry A. Blackmun Papers, Library of Congress ...
JUDICIAL RESTRAINT The great justice John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court, understood that the Constitution set up a democratic republic and that the American experiment in self-government would necessitate ...
The States of Campaign Finance Reform