Buying the Vote A History of Campaign Finance Reform

Name: Buying the Vote A History of Campaign Finance Reform
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ISBN: 9780199340002

ISBN-10: 0199340005

ISBN-13: 9780199340002

Edition: 2014

Authors: Robert E. Mutch

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Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters.The tenets that corporations do not count as citizens, and that self-government functions best by reducing political inequality, were commonly heldup until the early years of the twentieth century, when Congress recognized the strength of these principles by prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions, passing a disclosure…

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English