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Coining corruption : the making of the American campaign finance system
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Coining corruption : the making of the American campaign finance system

Author: Kurt Hohenstein
Publisher: DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, ©2007.
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The US Supreme Court, in Buckley v Valeo (1976), defined corruption as quid pro quo - "get for giving" - meaning Congress could only regulate the kind of corruption that had occurred if a campaign  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hohenstein, Kurt.
Coining corruption.
DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608205180
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kurt Hohenstein
ISBN: 9780875803777 0875803776
OCLC Number: 123912498
Description: x, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
Introduction : Ignoring history and the conundrum of reform --
1. The beginnings of the campaign finance system --
2. Funding the national interest --
3. The progressive promise derailed --
4. Managing the marketplace of ideas --
5. Campaign finance "reform" in the New Deal --
6. Professionalizing politics and the "de-political court" --
7. Coining corruption --
Conclusion : From Buckley to BCRA and beyond --
Notes --
Works cited --
Index.
Responsibility: Kurt Hohenstein.
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"A terrific book about the history of campaign finance reform and how notions of political corruption and democratic theory have evolved and shifted over the past 130 years." - Adam Winkler, UCLA Read more...

 
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