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Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook » Read Now
by Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, Daniel R. Ortiz. 402 pgs.

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For interested citizens, students of American democracy, members of the press, and would-be reformers, this book sheds light on the past, present, and future of campaign finance reform.
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Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform » Read Now
by Bradley A. Smith. 274 pgs.

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"A wonderful, timely, and accessible book about one of the most pressing public questions of our time: the issue of campaign finance reform. Bedeviling our nation's political community for more than twenty-five years, the dispute over how best to regulate political campaign funding--and hence...
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"A wonderful, timely, and accessible book about one of the most pressing public questions of our time: the issue of campaign finance reform. Bedeviling our nation's political community for more than twenty-five years, the dispute over how best to regulate political campaign funding--and hence political campaign speech--has pitted free speech advocates against good government reformers, Democrats against Republicans, and courts against legislatures. Bradley Smith's highly readable book navigates all of these crosscurrents in a balanced way that informs the reader of the basic elements of the debates, while deftly skewering the key components of the conventional wisdom by arguing for the elimination of laws limiting campaign funding."--Joel Gora, Brooklyn Law School
"To date no one has written a sustained, book-length argument for the deregulation of campaign financing. Bradley Smith's "Unfree Speech is a welcome step in filling that gap. He addresses numerous important themes, including the inroads on freedom of speech caused by campaign finance regulation, the tendency of reformers to exaggerate the harms of campaign finance and to seek increasing restrictions on speech, and the tendency for the burden of regulation to fall most heavily on everyday citizens."--Daniel Lowenstein, UCLA
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Balancing Campaign Finance Reform against the First Amendment, in Social Education » Read Now
by Elizabeth M. Yang. 5 pgs.

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...Balancing Campaign Finance Reform Against the First Amendment...political process. Any and all campaign finance reform must be clearly framed in this...disillusionment has...
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The American Prospect Reader in American Politics (Chap. 16 "Crediting the Voters: A New Beginning for Campaign Finance") » Read Now
by Walter Dean Burnham. 396 pgs.

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...Adam Smith, for one, favored a publicly financed system of compulsory elementary education...enhance individual autonomy. Publicly financed schooling, as Mill wrote, is...
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Against the Scribes: Campaign Finance Reform Revisited, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy » Read Now
by John O. McGinnis. 19 pgs.

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...Against the scribes: campaign finance reform revisited. by John...for society Moreover, campaign finance reforms empowerment of the scribal...surprise, surprise --...
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A Short, Unhappy History of Campaign Finance Reform, in The American Enterprise » Read Now
by John R. Lott Jr. 3 pgs.

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...Short, Unhappy History of Campaign Finance Reform. by John Jr. Lott R...rhetorical drumbeat--the campaign finance reformers lament about there being...our most recent round...
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Empirical Evidence in the Debate on Campaign Finance Reform, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy » Read Now
by John R. Lott Jr. 8 pgs.

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...evidence in the debate on campaign finance reform. by John R. Lott Jr. In the debate about campaign finance regulation, empirical evidence...Undemocratic Consequences of...
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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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Campaigns, Congress, and Courts: The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law » Read Now
by Robert E. Mutch. 217 pgs.

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The First Laws From Teapot Dome to Watergate Money and Speech: The Debate Over Contribution and Spending Limits Disclosure, Enforcement, and the FEC Public Financing Unions, Corporations, and the Rise of PACs
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Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now
by Bradley A. Smith. 44 pgs.

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...undemocratic consequences of campaign finance reform. by Bradley A. Smith...the basic assumptions of campaign finance reform advocates, rather than the...longstanding...
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Campaign Finance 'Reform,' in World and I » Read Now
by John Samples. 6 pgs.

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...Campaign Finance Reform. by JOHN SAMPLES Congress...media during elections. After campaign finance "reform" goes into effect, the voices...powerful than ever. In the end...
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The New Populist Reader (Chap. 21 "How Money Corrupts Democracy: The Need for Campaign Finance Reform") » Read Now
by Karl G. Trautman. 246 pgs.

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The editor of this work argues that the contemporary American political scene is increasingly driven by populist demands. This is the only book on American Politics which outlines this trend. Using primary sources and analyses from government and the media, the book examines the many aspects from...
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The editor of this work argues that the contemporary American political scene is increasingly driven by populist demands. This is the only book on American Politics which outlines this trend. Using primary sources and analyses from government and the media, the book examines the many aspects from all points of the political spectrum, of populism. It is divided into three sections, covering economic, cultural, and governmental populism. Each section contains unique stories, told through informative reporting, reasoned analysis, and passionate oratory. Freed from the traditional ideological conceptions of American politics, this work allows the reader to understand the diverse nature of contemporary populism.
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Developments in American Politics 3 (Chap. 15 "Campaign Finance Reform") » Read Now
by Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce Cain. 424 pgs.

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...304 15 Campaign-finance Reform Jason F. Kirksey 307...Prospects for campaign-finance reform 315 Campaip-finance...Conclusion: the structure of campaign-finance reform...
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Setting National Priorities: The 2000 Election and Beyond (Chap. 14 "The U.S. Campaign Finance System under Strain") » Read Now
by Henry J. Aaron, Robert D. Reischauer. 496 pgs.

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"If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention...it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget." - The Washington Post For the first time in more than four decades, the federal budget has registered two...
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"If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention...it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget." - The Washington Post For the first time in more than four decades, the federal budget has registered two consecutive surpluses, and the need to reduce the deficit is not casting a pall over the policy debate. This new, highly accessible book examines the policy options that are available in this new environment to address the new and recurring challenges that face the nation. The book, which continues the Brookings Institution's highly acclaimed and influential Setting National Priorities series, will serve as a guide for understanding many of the complex issues that will be discussed during the presidential and congressional campaigns of 2000. The book centers around three themes: providing opportunity in the domestic arena, restoring confidence in government, and adapting to the post-Cold War international environment. It tackles such critical issues as Medicare and social security, tax reform, and foreign policy spending, as well as many areas not included in previous editions; namely, education, urban problems, the environment, trade, government renewal and reform, crime and drugs, and families. In addition to the editors, the contributers are Gary Burtless, I. M. Destler, John J. DiIulio Jr., William Gale, Bruce Katz, Donald F. Kettl, Paul C. Light, Thomas E. Mann, Michael O'Hanlon, Paul R. Portney, Diane Ravitch, Isabel V. Sawhill, and James Sly.
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Campaign Finance Reform and the 1994 Congressional Elections, in Policy Studies Journal » Read Now
by Donald A. Gross, Todd G. Shields, Robert K. Goidel. 20 pgs.

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...Campaign finance reform and the 1994 congressional elections...president who promised to sign campaign finance reform. Yet, the possibility that campaign...their opposition...