The day after reform : sobering campaign finance lessons from the American states

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The day after reform : sobering campaign finance lessons from the American states

Michael J. Malbin and Thomas L. Gais

Rockefeller Institute Press , Distributed by the Brookings Institution Press, 1998

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: pbk ISBN 9780914341550

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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.
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: cloth ISBN 9780914341567

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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.

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Foreword Richard P. Nathan, Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Laws and Agencies The Scope (and Limit) of Reform: A Brief Federal Detour State Laws: The Early Wave Changes in State Laws Since 1980 Administering the Laws: Agency Resources 3. Turning Laws Into Tasks: The Assumptions Underlying Disclosure Agency Tasks Agency's Work Is Never Done After the Agency--Then What? 4. Public Funding: Themes and Variations Public Funding Themes Which Candidates Participate? Public Support for Funding Trends Downward Political Support for Funding: The Need for Consensus 5. Slipping and Sliding: How Interest Groups Have Adapted to Regulation Tactical Responses: Getting Around the Law Unequal Effects The Effects of Increased Complexity Summary 6. The Limits of Party Limits Overview Florida Wisconsin Washington Minnesota Conclusions 7. What Helps Competition? Public Financing: Good, At Most, for a Start What Really Helps Challengers: It's the Money, No Matter From Where The Party's the Key Turnign the Tables Conclusions 8. If the Standard Cures Fail, What Can One Do? Accountability, Disclosure, and Limits Encouraging Competition, Debate, and Participation Concluding Thoughts Index

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