Money, power & elections : how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy / Rodney A. Smith ; with a new preface by the author.
Material type: TextSeries: Politics@mediaPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780807156315 (e-book)
- Money, power and elections
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- JK1991 .S65 2006eb
"Published in cooperation with the Kevin P. Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs."
Includes bibliographical references.
The folly of reform -- The rise and fall of citizen sovereignty -- Rome : a flawed model -- Citizen sovereignty : the dearest thing of all -- The constitution and America's first political campaign -- American democracy and political parties -- What is an election, anyway? -- Political campaigns and money -- The perceived corruption of money versus the real corruption of power -- We the sovereigns, not we the subjects -- The crux of the problem -- Supreme Court mandates run amok -- Empirical evidence -- Freedom of the press -- Political fund-raising : the current reality -- The twenty-eighth amendment.
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