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Improper influence : campaign finance law, political interest groups, and the problem of equality / Thomas Gais.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gais, Thomas, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Campaign funds--Law and legislation--United States.
- Campaign funds.
- Campaign funds--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Political action committees--United States.
- Political action committees.
- Pressure groups--United States.
- Pressure groups.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 part of the answer lies in the laws themselves, which prevent many hard-to-organize citizen groups from forming effective political action committees (PACs), while actually helping business groups organize PACs.
- Thomas L. Gais points out that many laws that regulate group involvement in elections ignore the real difficulties of political mobilization, and he concludes that PACs and the campaign finance laws reflect a fundamental discrepancy between grassroots ideals and the ways in which broadly based groups actually get organized.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472106317
- 9780472085828
- 0472085824
- 9780472106318
- 9780472027378
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.14656
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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