Federal Election Campaign Laws - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Federal Election Campaign Laws write by United States. This book was released on 1997. Federal Election Campaign Laws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Super PACs
Super PACs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Super PACs write by Louise I. Gerdes. This book was released on 2014-05-20. Super PACs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Voting with Dollars
Voting with Dollars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voting with Dollars write by Bruce Ackerman. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Voting with Dollars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. divdivIn this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of “secret donation booths” for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit card account containing fifty “Patriot dollars” for presidential elections. To use this money, citizens go to their local ATM machine and anonymously send their Patriot dollars to their favorite candidates or political organizations. Americans are free to make additional contributions, but they must also give these gifts anonymously. Because candidates cannot identify who provided the funds, it will be much harder for big contributors to buy political influence. And the need for politicians to compete for the Patriot dollars will give much more power to the people. Ackerman and Ayres work out the operating details of their plan, anticipate problems, design safeguards, suggest overseers, and show how their proposals satisfy the most stringent constitutional requirements. They conclude with a model statute that could serve as the basis of a serious congressional effort to restore Americans’ faith in democratic politics./DIV/DIV
Public Funding of Presidential Elections
Public Funding of Presidential Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Funding of Presidential Elections write by United States. Federal Election Commission. This book was released on 1994. Public Funding of Presidential Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Money, Power, and Elections
Money, Power, and Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Money, Power, and Elections write by Rodney A. Smith. This book was released on 2014-04-07. Money, Power, and Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect. They have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and they have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Smith's claims are supported by convincing data; he collected and analyzed information about all federal elections since 1920. These data show clearly that money matters now more than ever. Smith thinks that reform legislation has created a new inequality for candidates that, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the American electoral process by obliterating the foundational principle of free speech. He argues that "money buys speech" and when candidates lack money to buy media time and space they are effectively silenced. Their inability to "speak freely" violates the most significant intentions of our nation's founders: that a sovereign citizenry elect its own leaders based on a free exchange of ideas. For Smith, campaign finance reform has unwittingly unbalanced the checks and balances created by the Framers of the Constitution.After presenting a detailed historical overview of how we have reached the present crisis, Smith proposes a simple solution: institute a process that completely discloses relevant information about campaign donors and recipients of donations. All disclosures would be available to the media, which would be able to investigate and report them fully. Only then, Smith believes, will the United States have the opportunity to be the democratic republic that its founders intended.
