Money talks : corporate PACS and political influence
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Money talks : corporate PACS and political influence
BasicBooks, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-261) and index
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内容説明
It is generally agreed that political action committees (PACs) have transformed the US system of campaign finance. Based on interviews with officials from every major kind of PAC, this is a behind-the-scenes look at what PACs want from Congress and how they go about getting it.
目次
- Part 1 Money changes everything: why does the air stink? - the candidates perspective, the current law, corporate PACS
- our research - the interviews
- overview and background - what is power? business is different, the limits to business power. Part 2 Raising money and running the PAC: establishing the rules - a brief history of compaign finances, SUN-PAC - the hidden face of power
- raising money - campaigns to raise money, coercion to contribute, untapped material
- running the PAC - the PACs internal structure, increasing managers' political participation, democracy in action?, Congress approves. Part 3 Gifts - networks of obligations: understanding gifts - deciding on contributions, requests and member pressure, the decision process, pragmatic criteria, ideological contributions, controversy - why and how often?
- giving more than a campaign contribution - PAC contributions build networks, conclusion. Part 4 Access - I can get to waxman for $250: myth one - key notes are the issue - high visibility issue, low-visibility issues and non-issues, what a typical bill is like, the bottom line, business hegemony
- myth two - money is explicitly exchanged for votes - are these loopholes available to everyone?, keeping track and knowing the players, getting access and shaping a solution, defending the changer and getting it through, the PAC is only a part of the process, why corporations can do what others can't
- myth three - political party matters - myth four - business wins without effort - language and euphemism, policy implications. Part 5 Ideology - defending free enterprise: characteristics of an ideological orientation - relation to lobbying, candidates and races, a formula for self-destruction
- the rise and fall of ideological behaviour - the ideological mobilization of the 1970s, the PAC contribution to this ideological mobilization, did this mobilization make a difference, the Democrats - taking care of business
- assessing corporate ideological donations. Part 6 Business unity, business power: building business unity - learning about issues, asking each other for money, can industry competitors work together?, business unity beyond the industry, how campaign finance laws coerce business to unity
- control of the economy - levels of inequality, business decisions, the pinto gas tank, spending the money, confronting business power. Part 7 "They might start running it strictly for the votes": PAC directors on PACs - "A Tool and Nothing Else", reforms aren't imminent, "By the Time they change It, It's Too Late"
- piecememal reform won't work - the purpose of the current system, economy and policy - contradictory principles, what should campaign reform aim to do?
- public financing - objections and arguments against, arguments for, new rules for primaries
- be realistic. Consequences: the character of congress, political change, business power.
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