Provides a guide to the modern political campaign by examining the twentieth-century evolution and refinement of election campaign laws, chronologically covering key federal, state, and local campaign laws, election commission rules, and the court decisions interpreting them.
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspect…
"Campaign finance reform has always been motivated by a definition of democracy that does not count corporations as citizens and holds that self-government works best by reducing political inequality. In the early years of the twentieth century, Congress recognized the strength …
Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about it. Why are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government…
Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regulated and constrained? This book argues that the campaign finance laws preve…
"In 2008, the worldwide financial crisis dealt a severe blow to the construction industry in Tomsk, a charming academic center in Russia dubbed the "Siberian Athens" for the numerous universities that call the city home.1 A crisis of liquidity forced banks to stop lending altoge…
The role of money in politics is an issue of daily debate in old and new democracies alike. The ways that parties get access to money can influence the outcome of elections, determine the relationship between party leaders and members, affect the number of women elected and cond…
