The campaign finance cases : Buckley, McConnell, Citizens United, and McCutcheon / Melvin I. Urofsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urofsky, Melvin I., author.

Series:

Landmark law cases & American society.

Landmark law cases & American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campaign funds--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.

Campaign funds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]

Summary:

"The Campaign Finance Cases tells the legal story of campaign finance reform from the early efforts in Buckley v. Valeo (1976), to the McConnell v. FEC case in 2003 that largely upheld the McCain-Feingold Act, to the landmark Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions. Noted legal historian Melvin Urofsky shows that the early effort to distinguish between donated money as opposed to money spent by candidates made little sense. For all the uproar about Citizens United, the decision made good legal sense, but now it is up to Congress to enact campaign finance regulation that meets the Court's criteria"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Campaign finance reform before 1971

Reform and response : the Federal Election Campaign Act and Buckley

Soft money, PACs, and the failure of campaign finance reform after 1976

The road to McCain-Feingold

The Supreme Court and elections : from Buckley to McConnell

Interlude : confusion in the District Court

McConnell v. Federal Election Commission

From McConnell to Citizens United

Meet Mr. McCutcheon.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7006-2989-0

OCLC:

1236368417