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Campaign finance reform

Author: Christopher Luna
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson, 2001.
Series: Reference shelf.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Contributors explore the role of money in political campaigns. Corporate influence, soft money fund-raising, PACs, the role of the FCC, and First Amendment considerations, are among the topics addressed."
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Luna
ISBN: 0824209982 9780824209988
OCLC Number: 45620646
Description: viii, 198 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: A history of federal campaign finance law / Anthony Corrado --
Money troubles / Dan Froomkin --
Designed for impotence / Joshua Wolf Shenk --
Scandal of the past, present and future / Ellen Miller and Micah Sifry --
Got money? / Ron Schaumburg and Timothy Kelley --
Moving money around Washington / Steven and Allison R. Hayward --
The new money game / Romesh Ratnesar --
Tobacco and its money have minority allies in New York / Clifford J. Levy --
Social In-security / Common Cause --
Bought and paid for / Mark Hertsgaard --
Corporate cash pours into conventions / Mike Allen --
Campaign overhaul mired in money and loopholes / Karen Foerstel and Peter Wallsten, with Derek Willis --
Double down: a look at soft money fund-raising by leadership PACs / Holly Bailey --
The reform quandary / Jeremy Lehrer --
One cheer for soft money / Steven E. Schier --
"The First Amendment is not a stop sign against reform" / Bob Schiff --
Campaign finance reform: faulty assumptions and undemocratic consequences / Bradley A. Smith --
Campaign primer's first lesson: cash flows from contacts / Guy Gugliotta --
Free money / James V. DeLong --
A look at ... roadblocks to campaign reform / Milton S. Gwirtzman --The first step in campaign finance reform: fix the FCC / Pat Choate --
Profiteering from democracy / Charles Lewis --
Senate approves disclosure measure / Helen Dewar --
Taking offense / Jonathan Cohn --
The hard fight against soft money / William Greider --
Political reform comes from communities / Ric Bainter and Paul Lhevine --
Clean money in Maine / Marc Cooper.
Series Title: Reference shelf.
Responsibility: edited by Christopher Luna.

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"Contributors explore the role of money in political campaigns. Corporate influence, soft money fund-raising, PACs, the role of the FCC, and First Amendment considerations, are among the topics addressed."

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