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Money Rules: Financing Elections in America » Read Now
by Anthony Gierzynski. 146 pgs.

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Anthony Gierzynski is associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont.
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Shrink Missouri, Campaign Finance, and "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave," in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Richard L. Hasen. 27 pgs.

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...things, upheld limits on campaign contributions but struck down limits on...law limiting individual campaign contributions to statewide candidates...constitutional bar for...
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Discrimination and Congresssional Campaign Contributions » Read Now
by John Theilmann, Al Wilhite. 190 pgs.

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This is an interdiscplinary study that rigorously examines the role of campaign contributions in the election of blacks and women to the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1980s. It is an interdisciplinary work that provides an historical overview of discrimination and campaign financing, a...
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This is an interdiscplinary study that rigorously examines the role of campaign contributions in the election of blacks and women to the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1980s. It is an interdisciplinary work that provides an historical overview of discrimination and campaign financing, a model of campaign contributions based on a rent-seeking paradigm from public choice, and statistical testing of this model. Other books have treated aspects of campaign financing and racial/sexual discrimination, but this work is unique in its combination of campaign financing with racial and sexual discrimination.
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Risky Business? PAC Decisionmaking in Congressional Elections » Read Now
by Robert Biersack, Paul S. Herrnson, Clyde Wilcox. 314 pgs.

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...limiting or eliminating their campaign contributions. There have even been proposals...endorsed candidates, made campaign contributions, politicized its members...1989 and...
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Committee Assignments, Constituent Preferences, and Campaign Contributions, in Economic Inquiry » Read Now
by Kevin B. Grier, Michael C. Munger. 20 pgs.

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...CONSTITUENT PREFERENCES, AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS KEVIN B. GRIER and MICHAEL...predict interest group campaign contributions to incumbent politicians...history of...
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Interest-Group PACsmanship: An Analysis of Campaign Contributions, Issue Visibility, and Legislative Impact, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Alan Neustadtl. 16 pgs.

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...PACsmanship: An Analysis of Campaign Contributions, Issue Visibility, and...effects of special-interest campaign contributions, party, and constituency...voting are...
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Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy » Read Now
by Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, Mark Weller. 271 pgs.

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Recent scandals, including questionable fund-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront of the news and the public consciousness. Dollars and Votes goes beyond the partial, often misleading, news stories and official records to explain how...
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Recent scandals, including questionable fund-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront of the news and the public consciousness. Dollars and Votes goes beyond the partial, often misleading, news stories and official records to explain how our campaign system operates. The authors conducted thorough interviews with corporate "government relations" officials about what they do and why they do it. The results provide some of the most damning evidence imaginable.
What donors, especially business donors, expect for their money is "access" and access means a lot more than a chance to meet and talk. They count on secret behind-the-scenes deals, like a tax provision that applies only to a "corporation incorporated on June 13, 1917, which has its principal place of business in Bartlesville, Oklahoma". After a deal is worked out behind closed doors, one executive explains, "it doesn't much matter how people vote afterwards".
Ordinary contributions give access to Congress; megabuck "soft money" contributions ensure access to the President and top leaders. The striking truth revealed by these authors is that half the soft money comes from fewer than five hundred big donors, and that most contributions come, directly or indirectly, from business. Reform is possible, they argue, by turning away from the temptation of looking at specific scandals and developing a new system that removes the influence of big money campaign contributors.
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Top Down Policymaking ("Who Pays for Elections?" begins on p. 69) » Read Now
by Thomas R. Dye. 192 pgs.

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Thomas R. Dye is president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service, a nonprofit educational organization based in Florida. He was formerly McKenzie Professor of Government at Florida State University.
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The Limits of Campaign Spending Limits, in Public Interest » Read Now
by Stanley C. Brubaker. 22 pgs.

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...spending and its limits on campaign contributions. Contributions, the Court...larger share of total federal campaign contributions than did large donations...argued, the...
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The Money Primary: What Influences the Outcome of Pre-primary Presidential Nomination Fundraising?, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by Randall E. Adkins, Andrew J. Dowdle. 20 pgs.

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...candidates are in the campaign, the more contributions they will raise...individual and group contributions as provided by the Federal Election Campaign Act, which...
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Foreign-Owned Firms' Campaign Contributions in the United States: An Exploratory Study, in Policy Studies Journal » Read Now
by Kathleen A. Rehbein. 21 pgs.

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...Foreign-owned firms campaign contributions in the United States: an...foreign-owned firms provide campaign contributions to United States legislators...which domestic firms...
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Trade Protection and the Role of Campaign Contributions in U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries, in Economic Inquiry » Read Now
by Rigoberto A. Lopez, Emilio Pagoulatos. 12 pgs.

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...PROTECTION AND THE ROLE OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS IN U.S. FOOD AND TOBACCO...both trade protection and campaign contributions for a sample of U.S. food...variables are...
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A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance (Chap. 3 "The Financial Relationship Between Congress and the Health Care Industry") » Read Now
by Nicholas Laham. 251 pgs.

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Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of a single social issue, and certainly the boldest attempt to establish national health insurance in the United States. An analysis of the Clinton...
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Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of a single social issue, and certainly the boldest attempt to establish national health insurance in the United States. An analysis of the Clinton campaign, therefore, reveals much about the politics of divided government in the late 20th century, the apparent end of the New Deal-Great Society approach to governance and the enduring democratic coalition which supported it, and, of course, the high stakes politics of health care reform. This study attempts to advance our understanding of why national health insurance has proven to be such a potent idea while seemingly impossible to accomplish. The work focuses on the political factors which derailed the Clintons' health care reform initiative, providing a case study of a most significant modern-day political and policy battle.
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