Improper influence: campaign finance law, political interest groups, and the problem of equality
Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regulated and constrained
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| Zusammenfassung: | Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regulated and constrained This book argues that the campaign finance laws prevent many citizen groups from forming effective political action committees (PACs) - organizations created by interest groups to raise and spend money in elections - while the regulations are less of an obstacle to business groups in forming PACs. This results, the author asserts, in a campaign finance system which is biased in favor of economic interests. The author argues that the laws regulating PACs ignore the real difficulties of political mobilization - problems that political scientists have expounded in both theoretical and empirical analyses of collective action The author concludes that our campaign finance laws reflect a fundamental discrepancy between our ideals about the role of small individual contributors and the real ways in which broadly based groups actually get organized. Deregulating group activity, the author suggests, may be the only way to promote pluralism and reduce the dominance of the campaign finance system by economic institutions |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 236 S. |
| ISBN: | 0472106317 |
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Campaign Finance Law#
Political Interest Groups,
and the Problem of Equality
Thomas Gais
Ann Arbor
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Contents
Figures ix
Tables xi
Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter
1 Introduction 1
2 Collective Action, Institutions, and Bias in the
PAC System 23
3 The Size and Scope of the PAC System 45
4 PAC Formation among Interest Groups: Incentives
and Their Limits 81
5 PAC Formation among Interest Groups:
Institutional Constraints 103
6 PACs, Groups, and Public Policies 129
7 PACs, Groups, and the Political Parties 147
8 Conclusions 171
Appendixes
A Merged Data on Associations and PACs: Sources,
Procedures, and Descriptions 201
B Coding PACs according to Occupational Type: Data
Sources and Coding Rules 205
C Explanation of the Interactive Model of
PAC Affiliation 209
Notes 213
Works Cited 219
Index 229
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