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

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Dilemmas in American Politics

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1: Introduction

Notes

2: Understanding Campaign-Finance Behavior

3: Elections, Campaign- Finance Law, and Public Opinion

Summary

4: Money in Elections

Conclusion

5: Contributors

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6: Conclusion

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Appendix Detailed Description of Analysis Behind Figure 4.2

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Shrink Missouri, Campaign Finance, and "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave," in Constitutional Commentary
by Richard L. Hasen. 27 pgs.

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Discrimination and Congresssional Campaign Contributions
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 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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Chapter One Representation: Blacks and Women in the Political Process

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Chapter Two the Representation of Blacks and Women Since 1970: an Era of Change

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Chapter Three Campaign Contributions: a Historic Overview

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Chapter Four Aggregate Contributions in Theory and Practice

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Chapter Five Political Action Committees and Candidate Funding

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Chapter Six Party Money: an Affirmative Action Stance?

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Chapter Seven Individual Contributors and Discrimination

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Chapter Eight Money and Representation

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Appendix: Data and Variable Definitions

Bibliography

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Risky Business? PAC Decisionmaking in Congressional Elections
by Robert Biersack, Paul S. Herrnson, Clyde Wilcox. 314 pgs.

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Part One Lead Pacs

2: Coping with Increasing Business Influence: The Afl-Cio's Committee on Political Education

Conclusions: Cope in the Information Flow

3: The Business-Industry Pac: Trying to Lead in an Uncertain Election Climate

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4: The National Committee for an Effective Congress: Liberalism, Partisanship, and Electoral Innovation

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5: The Demise of a Lead Pac: The Free Congress Pac

Part Two Institutionalized Pacs

The Nationalization of Education Politics: the National Education Association Pac and the 1992 Elections

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At&t Pac: a Pragmatic Giant

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8: The Eaton Corporation Public Policy Association: Ideology, Pragmatism, and Big Business

9: The National Association of Realtors Pac: Rules or Rationality?

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10: The National Abortion Rights Action League Pac: Reproductive Choice in the Spotlight

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11: A New Political Pragmatism? the National Right to Life Pac

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Part Three "Mom and Pop" Pacs

12: The National Federation of Federal Employees: Big Little Man?

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13: The Fhp Health Care Pac

14: The American Association of Publishers Pac

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15: Grassroots Organization in Defense of Mother Nature: The Clean Water Action Vote Environment Pac

16: Le Pac C'Est Moi: Brent Bozell and the Conservative Victory Committee

17: Justlife Action

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18: The Washington Pac: One Man Can Make a Difference

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20: How the Little People Choose: Pac Decisionmaking in the Phh Group, Inc., and the National Air Traffic Controllers' Association

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Part Four Conclusions

21: Not So Risky Business: Pac Activity in 1992

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Committee Assignments, Constituent Preferences, and Campaign Contributions, in Economic Inquiry
by Kevin B. Grier, Michael C. Munger. 20 pgs.

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Interest-Group PACsmanship: An Analysis of Campaign Contributions, Issue Visibility, and Legislative Impact, in Social Forces
by Alan Neustadtl. 16 pgs.

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Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy
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 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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1: Follow the Money

2: Gifts Networks of Obligation

3: Access Loopholes as a System

4: Soft Money and the Pay-Per-View Presidency

5: Ideology and Political Shifts

6: Pacs Running in Packs

7: Scandal or System?

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Top Down Policymaking ("Who Pays for Elections?" begins on p. 69)
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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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Chapter 1 Policymaking from the Top Down

Chapter 2 Power, Wealth, and Policymaking

Chapter 3 The Policy Formulation Process

Chapter 4 The Leadership Selection Process

Chapter 5 The Interest Group Process

Chapter 6 The Opinion Making Process

Chapter 7 The Policy Legitimation Process

Chapter 8 The Policy Implementation Process

Chapter 9 The Policy Evaluation Process

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The Limits of Campaign Spending Limits, in Public Interest
by Stanley C. Brubaker. 22 pgs.

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The Money Primary: What Influences the Outcome of Pre-primary Presidential Nomination Fundraising?, in Presidential Studies Quarterly
by Randall E. Adkins, Andrew J. Dowdle. 20 pgs.

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Foreign-Owned Firms' Campaign Contributions in the United States: An Exploratory Study, in Policy Studies Journal
by Kathleen A. Rehbein. 21 pgs.

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Trade Protection and the Role of Campaign Contributions in U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries, in Economic Inquiry
by Rigoberto A. Lopez, Emilio Pagoulatos. 12 pgs.

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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")
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 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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Chapter 1: The Political Obstacles to Health Care Reform

Chapter 2: Clinton's National Health Insurance Plan: Addressing the Health Care Crisis

Chapter 3: The Financial Relationship Between Congress and the Health Care Industry

Chapter 4: The Health Care Industry Opposes Clinton's National Health Insurance Plan

Chapter 5: The Republican Party Launches Its Campaign to Defeat Clinton's National Health Insurance Plan

Chapter 6: Business Opposes Clinton's National Health Insurance Plan

Chapter 7: The Division Within the Democratic Party Over National Health Insurance

Chapter 8: The Collapse of Clinton's Health Care Reform Initiative

Chapter 9: Why Did Clinton's Health Care Reform Initiative Fail?

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Welfare for Politicians? Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns
by Johh Samples. 315 pgs.

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1: Introduction: Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns

2: The Case against Taxpayer Financing

3: Three Lessons from Arizona

4: Elections in Arizona, Clean and Unclean

5: Does Cleanliness Lead to Competitiveness? the Failure of Maine's Experiment

6: Our Democracy, Our Airwaves

7: Why Subsidize the Soapbox?

8: The Constitutional Case against "Free" Airtime

9: Reform without Reason? the Scientific Method and Campaign Finance

10: The Failure of Taxpayer Financing of Presidential Campaigns

11: Are Matching Funds Only "For Losers"?

12: Taxpayer Financing in Comparative Perspective

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