Money, Power, and Elections

Released on by Rodney A. Smith
preview-18

  • Money, Power, and Elections Book Detail

  • Author : Rodney A. Smith
  • Release Date : 2014-04-07
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 248
  • ISBN 13 : 0807156329
  • File Size : 76,76 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Money, Power, and Elections by Rodney A. Smith PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Money, Power, and Elections books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Money, Power, and Elections

Money, Power, and Elections

File Size : 36,36 MB
Total View : 4711 Views
DOWNLOAD

Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was firs

Gendered Electoral Financing

Gendered Electoral Financing

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 3804 Views
DOWNLOAD

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from seven country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between

Dollarocracy

Dollarocracy

File Size : 7,7 MB
Total View : 6885 Views
DOWNLOAD

Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic i

Costs of Democracy

Costs of Democracy

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 1975 Views
DOWNLOAD

One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it

Money, Power, and Elections

Money, Power, and Elections

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 1879 Views
DOWNLOAD

Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was firs