Buying the vote a history of campaign finance reform

Campaign finance reform has always been motivated by a definition of democracy that does not count corporations as citizens and holds that self-government works best by reducing political inequality. In the early years of the twentieth century, Congress recognized the strength of these principles by...

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Main Author: Mutch, Robert E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2014
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