Life After Reform
When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics
Published on 25. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7425-2833-8 (ISBN)
Description
Life After Reform is the first serious and dispassionate book about how politics will change under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It will quickly be seen as an essential tool for understanding the 2004 election. But its sophisticated and original framework for understanding change will also make it important well beyond a specific election, and long after reform debates have shifted to new questions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-2833-8 (9780742528338)
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Person
Michael J. Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), is also professor of political science, University at Albany, State University of New York. A Campaign Finance Institute Book. The Campaign Finance Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institute affiliated with the George Washington University that conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces, and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance.
Content
Part 1 I New Laws and Processes Chapter 2 Thinking about Reform Chapter 3 The Legislative Odyssey of BCRA Part 4 II Givers and Spenders Chapter 5 BCRA's Impact on Interest Groups and Advocacy Organizations Chapter 6 With Limits Raised, Who Will Give More? The Impact of BCRA on Individual Donors Part 7 III Political Parties Chapter 8 National Political Parties After BCRA Chapter 9 State Political Parties After BCRA Chapter 10 The Party as an Extended Network: Members Giving to Each Other and to Their Parties Part 11 IV Campaigns and Elections Chapter 12 The Stagnation of Congressional Elections Chapter 13 The "Millionaire's Amendment" Chapter 14 The Impact of BCRA on Presidential Campaign Finance Chapter 15 Postscript