Money, power & elections : how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy /

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Autor principal: Smith, Rodney A., 1941- (Author)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Colecção:Politics@media.
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Sumário:
  • 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.