03489cam a2200517 4500 1863426655 TxAuBib 20250117120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472904532 0472904531 a7378ac1-727c-48d2-ba8a-522bd2cb217c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10959373 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dwyre, Diana. Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S [Libby eBook] : Why We Have the System We Have. University of Michigan Press, 2024. joint fundraising committees JFCs. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. congressional candidates. Presidential candidates. campaign finance reform. corporate free speech. money and politics. Freedom of speech. Political Parties. campaign finance. Buckley v. Valeo. corporate power. citizens united. interest groups. Leadership PACs. large donors. small donors. corruption. incumbency. super pacs. reelection. HTML:Before the U.S. campaign finance system can be fixed, we first have to understand why it has developed into the system as it exists today. The nature of democracy itself, the American capitalist economic system, the content of the U.S. Constitution and how it is interpreted, the structure of our governmental institutions, the competition for governmental power, and the behavior of campaign finance actors have all played a role in shaping the system.<br /> <br /> <i>The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance</i> in the U.S. takes care to situate the campaign finance system in the context of the broader U.S. political and economic system. Dwyre and Kolodny offer readers a brief tour through the development of the campaign finance regulatory structure, highlighting the Supreme Court's commitment to free speech over political equality from Buckley v. Valeo (1976) through the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA, 2002). They also examine the driving force behind campaign finance reform—corruption—through historical, transactional, and institutional perspectives. While diving into the insufficiency of the disclosure and enforcement of campaign finance laws and calling attention to multiple federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and (principally) the Federal Election Commission, the authors show how a narrow view on campaign finance makes change difficult and why reforms often have limited success. By examining the fundamentals, Dwyre and Kolodny show the difficulties of changing a political system whose candidates have always relied on private funding of campaigns to one that guarantees free speech rights while minimizing concerns of corruption. Nonfiction. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-17 20:00:03. Kolodny, Robin. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a7378ac1-727c-48d2-ba8a-522bd2cb217c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)