The Fallacy of Campaign Finance ReformUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 328 páginas At first glance, campaign finance reform looks like a good idea. McCain-Feingold, for instance, regulates campaigns by prohibiting national political parties from accepting soft money contributions from corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals. But are such measures, or any of the numerous and similarly restrictive proposals that have circulated through Washington in recent years, really good for our democracy? |
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... from his experience have left some mark in these pages. More important, he's a good kid who holds up his end of the argument around the dinner table. INTRODUCTION Money and Speech O n March 20, 2002, the preface xiii.
... argue that the victory of McCain-Feingold— indeed, the sheer existence of almost all federal campaign finance law—is reason for lamentation, not rejoicing. For more than three decades the federal government has widened its ambit over ...
... argued that private money corrupts politics. We shall see whether their vision has much to do with empirical reality. These visions of the way the world should be also offer answers to the problem of private interest in politics ...
... argument because restrictions on campaign finance are identified with abolishing abuses and errors. Apart from the ... arguments. It is not enough to simply say some magic words—reform, corruption, spe- cial interests, Big Money ...
... argued that humans possessed natu- ral rights prior to living together in political associations. Humans cre- ated government to vindicate those natural rights; at the same time, those rights constrained what government could do to the ...
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