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Political Money: Deregulating American Politics: Selected Writings On Campaign Finance Reform

by Annelise Graebner Anderson


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Current proposals involve increasing the regulation of campaign expenditures, further restricting campaign donations, creating ever-larger bureaucracies, using public funding for federal campaigns, and attempting to limit political speech not only through legislation but also through constitutional amendment. Through articles, Supreme Court decisions, speeches, and op-eds, Political Money challenges the view that current proposals are truly an appropriate public policy approach to campaign finance and argues that controls on campaign expenditures and contributions limit freedom of speech; that controls on the use of such resources smack of censorship; that there is no credible evidence that campaign contributions buy votes; and that more rapid and complete public disclosure is critical.



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In this policy primer on campaign finance reform, Annelise Anderson sorts through the rhetoric, congressional hearings, and public debate to describe the current rules and regulations and to prescribe viable options for change.

Current proposals involve increasing the regulation of campaign expenditures, further restricting campaign donations, creating ever-larger bureaucracies, using public funding for federal campaigns, and attempting to limit political speech not only through legislation but also through constitutional amendment.

Through articles, Supreme Court decisions, speeches, and op-eds, Political Money challenges the view that current proposals are truly an appropriate public policy approach to campaign finance and argues that controls on campaign expenditures and contributions limit freedom of speech; that controls on the use of such resources smack of censorship; that there is no credible evidence that campaign contributions buy votes; and that more rapid and complete public disclosure is critical.

About the Author
Annelise Anderson is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. She has written on a variety of public policy issues and is a former associate director of the federal Office of Management and Budget.

Contributors Floyd Abrams, Michael Patrick Allen, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, Tom Bethell, Phillip Broyles, Bobby R. Burchfield, Warren Burger, John T. Doolittle, Pete Du Pont, Williamson M. Evers, Russell D. Feingold, Steve Forbes, David Frum, Meg Greenfield, Charles Krauthammer, Dan Manatt, Thomas E. Mann, David M. Mason, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Trevor Potter, Jonathan Rauch, Larry J. Sabato, Robert J. Samuelson, Bradley A. Smith, Frank J. Sorauf, Dane Strother, Clarence Thomas, George F. Will

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