Money, power & elections : how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy /
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2006]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Politics@media.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.