Citizens Divided
Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution
Published on 23. June 2014
264 pages
978-0-674-36960-3 (ISBN)
Description
First Amendment defenders greeted the Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Robert Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and explains how the case might've been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.
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Pilot project, eBook available to selected US libraries only
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English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-36960-3 (9780674369603)
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06/2014
Harvard University Press
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Persons
Post Robert C. :
Robert C. Post is Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and Dean of Yale Law School.Urbinati Nadia :
Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University.
Robert C. Post is Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and Dean of Yale Law School.Urbinati Nadia :
Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University.
Content
Contents I. The Lectures 1. First Lecture: A Short History of Representation and Discursive Democracy 2. Second Lecture: Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment II. Commentary 3. Out-Posting Post - Lawrence Lessig 4. Legitimacy, Strict Scrutiny, and the Case Against the Supreme Court - Frank Michelman 5 Free Speech as the Citizen's Right - Nadia Urbinati 6. Citizens Deflected: Electoral Integrity and Political Reform - Pamela S. Karlan III. Response 7. Representative Democracy - Robert C. Post Notes Acknowledgments Commentators Index
