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Author : Robert G Boatright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472051441
Interest groups shape tactics in response to restrictions on campaign activities
Author : Harold J. Jansen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774818933
In 2004, Jean Chrtien's Liberals banned corporations and unions from contributing financially to political parties. In 2008, opposition leaders were prepared to defeat the Conservative Party over its proposal to eliminate public subsidies to parties. In this book, prominent political scientists explore the underlying issues that led to the showdown. Are publicly funded parties compatible with democracy? What effects has party finance reform had on elections and on the balance of power between parties and donors and between national parties and local organizations? Contributors show that campaign finance reforms have shaped party organization and electoral competition, contributing to successive minority governments.
Author : F. Leslie Seidle
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459719019
The two studies in Interest Groups and Elections in Canada explore the nature and influence of special interest groups. They consider different aspects of the question, "In the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, how can the laws intended to secure a fair electoral process be reconciled with freedom of expression?" Janet Hiebert reviews the limits on interest groups adopted in 1974 and amended in 1983, profiles the groups involved int he 1988 federal election, and discusses relevant legislation and jurisprudence in the provinces and abroad. She concludes that spending limits for parties and candidates will only be effective if there are also restrictions on independent expenditures during elections by groups and individuals. Brian Tanguay and Barry Kay assess the influence attributed to locally oriented interest groups, including by members of Parliament, and conclude that these organizations have less influence on the political process than is the popular view. The authors conclude that dissatisfaction is a key variable explaining the role of these interest groups and their activities during elections.
Author : F. Leslie Seidle
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459718968
This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue of money in elections is as old as democracy, the experience of other countries is instructive. The studies in this volume offer Canadians information about approaches to funding political parties and elections in the United States and Western Europe. The studies by Herbert Alexander and Robert Mutch exmaine how the United States has approached issues such as contribution limits and the disclosure of election finances. The latter study provides explicit comparisons to Canada, noting the constitutional roleof the Supreme Court in each country. Jane Jenson draws on Western European experience to propose and assess reforms for the public funding for party foundations is documented by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. The studies approach theirm aterial from a historical perspective, noting the uniqueness of the constitutions, institutions, and traditions of the countries reviewed. The authors provide background essential to any consideration of whether foreign experience might serve as a model for Canada.
Author : Thomas L. Gais
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472085824
Presents an original argument regarding the role of money in national politics
Author : Timothy K. Kuhner,Eugene D. Mazo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107177635
Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
Author : Henrik M. Schatzinger,Steven E. Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538136195
The first book of its kind to provide an accessible overview of the changes Citizens United brought to political campaigns and political representation, it combines rigorous academic research with many examples of ongoing trends from the campaign trail. Even though campaign finance involves complex legal issues, the book is set up to be engaging for both students of political campaigns and American politics, as well as civically engaged citizens who want to learn more about outside groups and their impact on campaigns and public policy. The book makes the case that Super PACs and dark money groups qualify as game changers of political campaigns not only because of what these groups can do independently from candidates and their increasing ability to match or even exceed candidates’ financial resources, but because their actions influence the political incentives and strategies of candidates and political parties. We also point out evidence that those changes go beyond campaigns—they affect how legislators represent their constituents; how donors put pressure on lawmakers to adopt certain legislation after outside groups supported them; how the regulatory environment can benefit donors as a result of actions taken by federal agencies to repeal or dismantle existing laws; and how extreme positions by politicians can be incentivized and progress stalled when megadonors and outside groups reward political ideologues. Our hope is that this text inspires readers to draw their own conclusions about the effects the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has had and continues to have on the inner workings of American democracy. Some may even feel moved to take action that will empower ordinary citizens who want to have more of a voice in the democratic process. Given the high stakes associated with elections and the political changes they can bring due to the highly polarized political environment we live in, we believe that this book will add value to not only courses focusing on campaigns, elections, interest groups, and political communication, but also other courses such as introductory American Government courses.
Author : Keith D. Ewing
Publisher : Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015025384234
Criticizing the electoral system is practically an American pastime. Are there any viable alternatives? Money, Politics, and Law is a study of electoral expenditure controls in Canada. Making frequent comparisons with the United States and Britain, it examines the background of electoral expenditure, the legislative control asserted on political parties, and the struggle arising from the potentially conflicting goals of equality enforced by fiscal control and the constitutional protection of liberty. This work will interest those involved with law and politics, as well as electoral law and civil liberties.
Author : Michael J. Malbin,Thomas L. Gais
Publisher : Rockefeller Institute Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438436418
For more than twenty-five years, campaign finance reform has been based on assumptions that no longer match the realities of modern campaigning. Despite this, many of the supposedly new proposals on the national agenda continue to be based on the old set of assumptions and to produce stalemate. However, even while Congress has deadlocked, more than half of the states have revised their laws on campaign finance. Some of these are now being promoted actively as models to be emulated. Michael J. Malbin and Thomas L. Gais look at the states to see how campaign finance reforms have actually worked out—what has happened after candidates, political parties, and interest groups have had a chance to adapt to them. This book is based on a fifty-state survey of campaign finance laws and their administering agencies, analyses of reports from the states that release candidate-level data, and extensive open-ended interviews with political leaders in half a dozen jurisdictions with among the most ambitious regulatory frameworks. It concludes with recommendations based on realistic assumptions set in a package that is designed to remain workable over the long haul.
Author : Arthur B. Gunlicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429715068
This book provides information about how policies and practices regarding public financing abroad, focusing on North America and several Western European countries, can help Americans develop their own ideas about reform possibilities.
Author : Robert G Boatright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472121410
For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a harbinger of things to come elsewhere or further evidence that the United States remains an anomaly? In this volume, experts on the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Sweden, France, and several other European nations explore what deregulation means in the context of political campaigns and demonstrate how such comparisons can inform the study of campaign finance in the U.S. Whereas the contributors do not settle on any single theory of change in campaign finance law or any single perspective on the relationship between changes seen in the U.S. and those in other nations over the past decade, they do concur that the U.S. is rapidly retreating from the types of regulations that defined campaign finance law in most democratic nations during the latter decades of the twentieth century. By tracing and analyzing the recent history of regulation, the contributors shed light on many pressing topics, including the relationship between public opinion and campaign finance law, the role of scandals in inspiring reform, and the changing incentives of political parties, interest groups, and the courts.
Author : K D Ewing,Samuel Issacharoff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847312532
This volume deals with questions of political party funding and campaign financing, issues which arouse controversy in many parts of the world. How are the central actors in the political arena supposed to gather the funds necessary to operate effectively on behalf of their chosen political ends? And, how may they spend money in furtherance of their political objectives? The aim of this volume, the first in a new series of Columbia University/London University collaborative projects, is to explore these issues in the specific context of a number of national settings.The studies presented here show that financing questions cannot be addressed independent of the constitutional conventions of the country, the nature of the political parties in the country, and the means of access to publication and the media in any given nation. The national studies in this volume reveal a rich diversity in the approach to regulation in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, Quebec, the United Kingdom and the United States. The topicality of the issues considered is reflected in the fact that since the book was first mooted there have been major decisions of the US Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as an investigation and report by the Electoral Commission in the United Kingdom, all of which have a direct bearing on the legal and policy issues discussed in this book.
Author : Robert G Boatright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472118700
The recent rise of “primarying” corresponds to the rise of national fundraising bases and new types of partisan organizations supporting candidates around the country
Author : Raymond J. La Raja,Brian F. Schaffner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472900039
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological agendas and, consequently, fostered political polarization. Drawing on data from 50 states and the U.S. Congress over 20 years, La Raja and Schaffner reveal that current rules allow wealthy ideological groups and donors to dominate the financing of political campaigns. In order to attract funding, candidates take uncompromising positions on key issues and, if elected, take their partisan views into the legislature. As a remedy, the authors propose that additional campaign money be channeled through party organizations—rather than directly to candidates—because these organizations tend to be less ideological than the activists who now provide the lion’s share of money to political candidates. Shifting campaign finance to parties would ease polarization by reducing the influence of “purist” donors with their rigid policy stances. La Raja and Schaffner conclude the book with policy recommendations for campaign finance in the United States. They are among the few non-libertarians who argue that less regulation, particularly for political parties, may in fact improve the democratic process.
Author : Eric S. Heberlig,Bruce A. Larson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472118137
Fundraising for the party has rapidly replaced more traditional criteria for advancement and other rewards in Congress
