Bankrupting democracy : campaign spending in a marketplace of ideas / Nathan Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Nathan (Sociologist), Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

United States.

Campaign funds--United States.

Campaign funds.

Advertising, Political--United States.

Advertising, Political.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2026]

Summary:

"A deeply researched investigation that shows how the long-held ideas protecting unlimited campaign spending as free speech that once served the needs of political candidates and voters are now shaped to serve the desires of interest groups, threatening the future of American democracy./b/ppIn the 2010 iCitizens United/i decision, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that the precedent they were overturning “interferes with the ‘open marketplace’ of ideas protected by the First Amendment.” For the majority who ruled in this case, money was in some sense the equivalent of speech, meaning that spending should be allowed under the guise of a marketplace of ideas. But what does this actually mean? And what are the consequences?/ppBoth critics and advocates of this marketplace of ideas often treat it as an abstract principle; one that focuses on competition among different voices that allows for the most popular, and therefore best, ideas to gain prominence. But the marketplace of ideas is not a single tool. There are multiple mechanisms at play, all of which influence the rules and regulations behind this competition. Therefore, the marketplace of ideas should be understood not as a single idea but as a collection of smaller norms that build a regulatory, market-like system./ppiBankrupting Democracy/i traces the development of this system, which Nathan Katz calls the “money-speech paradigm.”"-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

Saving democracy and Bob Hope

Letting the reins loose

Speak softly and carry a big wallet

Pulling the reins in

Super speech.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Katz, Nathan. Bankrupting democracy.

ISBN:

9780700641260

0700641262

9780700641277

0700641270

OCLC:

1586639231

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license