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Welfare for politicians? : taxpayer financing of campaigns / edited by John Samples.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Campaign funds--United States.
- Campaign funds.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, more than a dozen experts offer a broad and skeptical assessment of taxpayer financing of election campaigns.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611905705
- 9781933995694
- 1933995696
- 9781281905703
- 1281905704
- 9781598755923
- 1598755927
- OCLC:
- 615631574
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