Money, power & elections how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge (Louisiana) :
Louisiana State University Press
2006
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| Series: | Politics@media
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007317359708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
