The Appearance of Corruption - 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 The Appearance of Corruption write by Daron R. Shaw. This book was released on 2021-02-02. The Appearance of Corruption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical analysis of the connections that the United States Supreme Court has made between campaign finance regulations and voters' behavior. The sanctity of political speech is a key element of the United States Constitution and a cornerstone of the American republic. When the Supreme Court linked political speech to campaign finance in its landmark Buckley v. Valeo (1976) decision, the modern era of campaign finance regulation was born. The decision stated that in order to pass constitutional muster, any laws limiting money in politics must be narrowly tailored and serve a compelling state interest. The lone state interest the Court was willing to entertain was the mitigation of corruption. In order to reach this conclusion, the Court advanced a sophisticated behavioral model that made assumptions about how laws affect voters' opinions and behavior. These assumptions have received surprisingly little attention until now. In The Appearance of Corruption, Daron Shaw, Brian Roberts, and Mijeong Baek analyze the connections that the Court made between campaign finance regulations and voters' behavior. The court argued that an increase in perceived corruption would lower engagement and turnout. Drawing from original survey data and experiments, they confront the question of what happens when the Supreme Court is wrong-and when the foundation of over 40 years of jurisprudence is simply not true. Even with the heightened awareness of campaign finance issues that emerged in the wake of the 2010 Citizens United decision, there is little empirical support for the Court's reasoning that turnout would decline. A rigorous statistical analysis, this is the first work to simultaneously name and test each and every one of the Court's assumptions in the pre- and post-Citizen's United eras. It will also fundamentally reshape how we think about campaign finance regulation's effects on voter behavior.
Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption
Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption - 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 Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption write by Nitya Tangada Rao. This book was released on 2016. Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Buckley v. Valeo, arguably their most important campaign finance decision, the United States Supreme Court argued that the appearance of political corruption alone might be sufficient to undermine the health of a representative democracy. There has been little empirical evidence to support this assertion, so to test this hypothesis, I fielded a novel survey containing different measures of factors influencing perceptions of corruption, perceptions about campaign contributions, support for campaign finance reform initiatives, perceptions of the frequency and nature of corruption, and perceptions of democratic health to roughly 1000 participants on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. I constructed a causal diagram representing the "appearance of corruption" rationale in Buckley v. Valeo and used structural equation modeling, observed-variable path modeling to evaluate that specific causal hypothesis with various survey items. I found that the data did not support the hypotheses derived from the appearance of corruption rationale. To further test the Supreme Court’s claim that perceptions of corruption affect political behavior, I regressed various measures of perceptions of the frequency of corruption on self-reported political participation and found no significant correlation, again suggesting that the appearance of corruption rationale has meager empirical support.
Corruption, Accountability and Discretion
Corruption, Accountability and Discretion - 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 Corruption, Accountability and Discretion write by Nancy S. Lind. This book was released on 2017-10-25. Corruption, Accountability and Discretion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely and insightful book provides the key elements needed to understand the nature and prevalence of corruption in public governance, as well as the devastating public policy consequences.
Inside the Campaign Finance Battle
Inside the Campaign Finance Battle - 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 Inside the Campaign Finance Battle write by Anthony Corrado. This book was released on 2004-05-26. Inside the Campaign Finance Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2002 Congress enacted the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), the first major revision of federal campaign finance law in a generation. In March 2001, after a fiercely contested and highly divisive seven-year partisan legislative battle, the Senate passed S. 27, known as the McCain-Feingold legislation. The House responded by passing H.R. 2356, companion legislation known as Shays-Meehan, in February 2002. The Senate then approved the House-passed version, and President George W. Bush signed BCRA into law on March 27, 2002, stating that the bill had "flaws" but overall "improves the current system of financing for federal campaigns." The Reform Act was taken to court within hours of the President's signature. Dozens of interest groups and lawmakers who had opposed passage of the Act in Congress lodged complaints that challenged the constitutionality of virtually every aspect of the new law. Following review by a special three-judge panel, the case is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003. This litigation constitutes the most important campaign finance case since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Buckley v. Valeo more than twenty-five years ago. The testimony, submitted by some of the country's most knowledgeable political scientists and most experienced politicians, constitutes an invaluable body of knowledge about the complexities of campaign finance and the role of money in our political system. Unfortunately, only the lawyers, political scientists, and practitioners actually involved in the litigation have seen most of this writing—until now. Ins ide the Campaign Finance Battle makes key testimony in this historic case available to a general readership, in the process shedding new light on campaign finance practices central to the congressional debate on the reform act and to the landmark litigation challenging its constitutionality.
Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns as Quests for Judicial Reputation
Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns as Quests for Judicial Reputation - 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 Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns as Quests for Judicial Reputation write by Nedim Hogic. This book was released on 2023. Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns as Quests for Judicial Reputation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some countries prosecute political corruption while others do not? The studies of judicial systems seem to place the answer to that question within the realm of the quality of judicial independence and the quality of judicial institutions designed to protect judicial independence. While useful, this explanation does not tell us why some countries in which the same or a very similar system of judicial independence or similar or comparable levels of corruption exist behave in different ways. Often it is said that the questions of the political will to tackle corruption is what precludes such developments in these countries, and it is highlighted that, in any event, the prosecution of political corruption does not necessarily lead to lower levels of corruption. The latter implies that the study of the prosecution of political corruption is less important as it is also less efficient than the preventive measures and the legislative frameworks that prevent or make corruption less likely.However, massive and systemic prosecutions of political corruption happen even in corrupt settings. The three largest anticorruption campaigns led by the judiciary which occurred in Italy, Brazil, and Romania have happened in the ambient of widespread political corruption, in which the most prominent members of the legislative and executive branches of government in those countries were involved. Moreover, they happened despite the absence of the political will to tackle corruption. These campaigns have been explained in the literature dealing with judicial systems as instances of judicial revolutions, anticorruption crusades, prosecutorial overreach, consequences of judicial independence, neoliberalism-fueled activities of the legal professionals, or politically motivated prosecutions. Also, comparisons between the three have been drawn, in particular between the Italian and Brazilian campaigns.While I agree with the authors that the campaigns have much in common in terms of their emergence, development, and result, as well as that they produced significant challenges to the overall balance between the branches of government within the countries, I feel they have been underexplored from a theoretical standpoint.Motivated by a desire to fill this gap and inspired by the approach of professors Garoupa and Ginsburg to the matter of judicial reputation, I treat these campaigns in this paper as quests for judicial reputation.
