Money Talks : Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy.
Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
NYU Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The nation's primary sources of communication, the argument goes, are increasingly controlled by vast corporate empires whose primary, or even exclusive motive is the maximization of profit. And these conglomerates should simply not be granted the same constitutional protection as, say, an individual p. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814776773 0814776779 |