Author: Anthony Corrado
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780815715818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of documents and analysis focuses on the statutory, legal, and administrative dimensions of campaign financing, its regulation, and the potential for reform.
Author: Rodney A. Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2014-04-07
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0807156329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect. They have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and they have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Smith's claims are supported by convincing data; he collected and analyzed information about all federal elections since 1920. These data show clearly that money matters now more than ever. Smith thinks that reform legislation has created a new inequality for candidates that, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the American electoral process by obliterating the foundational principle of free speech. He argues that "money buys speech" and when candidates lack money to buy media time and space they are effectively silenced. Their inability to "speak freely" violates the most significant intentions of our nation's founders: that a sovereign citizenry elect its own leaders based on a free exchange of ideas. For Smith, campaign finance reform has unwittingly unbalanced the checks and balances created by the Framers of the Constitution.After presenting a detailed historical overview of how we have reached the present crisis, Smith proposes a simple solution: institute a process that completely discloses relevant information about campaign donors and recipients of donations. All disclosures would be available to the media, which would be able to investigate and report them fully. Only then, Smith believes, will the United States have the opportunity to be the democratic republic that its founders intended.
Author: David B. Magleby
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0815720262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The amount of money needed to run a competitive congressional campaign is staggering, with special interests playing a central role in raising these funds. Also of concern is the declining competitiveness of House elections. And while recognition of the need to reform campaign financing is widespread, partisan and House/Senate differences over what these changes should be have complicated legislative efforts. Almost $450 million was spent in both the 1986 and 1988 congressional campaigns, much of it coming from wealthy contributors and political action committees (PACs). Increasing criticism of the current system will undoubtedly force Congress to keep campaign finance reform on it's legislative agenda. Using public opinion, election and campaign spending data, extensive interviews, and a knowledge of practical politics, Magleby and Nelson examine the central issues in the campaign financing debate: the cost of congressional campaigns, financial participation by the political parties and PACs, existing and proposed limits on contributions and expenditures, public financing, and the role of the Federal Election Commission. They propose a comprehensive package of reforms that will undoubtedly serve as a guide for future legislation.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Oversight
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Timothy K. Kuhner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1107177634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerald C. Lubenow
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780742517950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is campaign finance reform dead or alive? Can Congress really fix the problems that American voters perceive in their electoral system? This book assumes that voters are the end users of campaign finance reform, and it questions whether average citizens really know what they are asking for or what they may get when they demand change. In this book, ten prominent political scientists and commentators challenge the conventional wisdom about the role of money in campaigns and elections. They look at the level of campaign spending in recent times, the judicial perspective on spending as a First Amendment right, the current diversity of donors, the media spin on the subject, and the act of contributing as a form of political participation. The inimitable Norm Ornstein wraps it all up with a model reform proposal that is at once more moderate than McCain-Feingold and yet radical in its own way. Published under the auspices of Berkeley Public Policy Press."
Author: Michael J. Malbin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780914341567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Utilizing surveys, reports, and interviews, looks at the states to see how campaign finance reforms have worked out in fact, after organizations have had a chance to adapt to them.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Oversight
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
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