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Welfare for politicians? :

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1930865708

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1930865732

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9781930865709

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9781930865730

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b749216

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Welfare for politicians? :

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[Book]

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taxpayer financing of campaigns /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by John Samples.

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Washington, D.C. :

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Cato Institute,

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©2005.

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vi, 312 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: Taxpayer financing of campaigns / John Samples -- The case against taxpayer financing: a view from Massachusetts / Thomas M. Finneran -- Three lessons from Arizona / Chip Mellor -- Elections in Arizona, clean and unclean / Robert J. Franciosi -- Does cleanliness lead to competitiveness? the failure of Maine's experiment / Patrick Basham and Martin Zelder -- Our democracy, our airwaves / Paul Taylor -- Why subsidize the soapbox? the McCain free airtime proposal and the future of broadcasting / John Samples and Adam Thierer -- The Constitutional case against 'free' airtime / Laurence H. Winter -- Reform without reason? the scientific method and campaign finance / Jeffrey Milyo and David Primo -- The failure of taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns / John Samples -- Are matching funds only 'for losers'? a post-2004 vision for a renewed public funding system / Michael J. Malbin -- Taxpayer financing in comparative perspective / Patrick Basham.

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Integrity of the political process or simply provided "welfare for politicians" unable or unwilling to raise campaign funds voluntarily? This volume examines taxpayer financing of campaigns from various perspectives. Book jacket.

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Public concern about corruption is a hallmark of American politics. Critics regularly decry the influence of "special interests," who are said to buy legislatures and elections with "big money." Others call for taxpayer financing of political campaigns as a way to exclude private interests from politics. Almost half the states have some form of public funding for campaigns, and taxpayers continue to subsidize presidential campaigns. How has public funding worked? Has it protected the.

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Welfare for politicians?

Campaign funds-- United States.

Campaign funds.

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Wahlkampf

United States.

USA.

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Samples, John Curtis,1956-

Cato Institute.

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20201204091044.0

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