Money, Power, and Elections : How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy /

Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Rodney A., 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Élections > États-Unis.
Caisses electorales > États-Unis.
Demokratie
Machtpolitik
Wahlkampffinanzierung
Democracy.
Campaign funds.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
Democratie > États-Unis.
Democracy > United States.
Campaign funds > United States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The folly of reform
  • The rise and fall of citizen sovereignty
  • Rome : a flawed model
  • Citizen sovereignty : the dearest thing of all
  • The constitution and America's first political campaign
  • American democracy and political parties
  • What is an election, anyway?
  • Political campaigns and money
  • The perceived corruption of money versus the real corruption of power
  • We the sovereigns, not we the subjects
  • The crux of the problem
  • Supreme Court mandates run amok
  • Empirical evidence
  • Freedom of the press
  • Political fund-raising : the current reality
  • The twenty-eighth amendment.

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