An overview and analysis of campaign finance, including: the history of campaign-finance regulation and the current state of the law; current practices and trends in the flow of money; and the constitutional debate. The authors conclude with a broad overview of alternative approaches to reform.
An overview and analysis of campaign finance, including: the history of campaign-finance regulation and the current state of the law; current practice...
It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control. Are American values declining as so many suggest? And are those values at the root of many social problems today? Shaped by experience and public policies, people's values and social norms do change. What role can or should a democratic government play in shaping values? And how do these values conditon the efficacy of public policy? In this book, six...
It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcoming...
For interested citizens, students of American democracy, members of the press, and would-be reformers, this book sheds light on the past, present, and future of campaign finance reform.
For interested citizens, students of American democracy, members of the press, and would-be reformers, this book sheds light on the past, present, and...
The work examines the legal challenge to the new Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (BCRA) which is in federal court. Both sides have assembled expert reports and testimony from some of the US's best-known academic experts and political practitioners. These materials, filed with the court but difficult for the general public to access and evaluate, provide a window onto contemporary practices and disputes over party soft money and issue advocacy.
The work examines the legal challenge to the new Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (BCRA) which is in federal court. Both sides have assembled ex...
This book explores the sources of the conflict, its consequences for the formulation and conduct of foreign policy, and ways to improve the relations between Congress and the president.
This book explores the sources of the conflict, its consequences for the formulation and conduct of foreign policy, and ways to improve the relations ...
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the problems and possibilities of polling by media organizations in the 1990s and beyond. It addresses the influence of technology, the sources of error, the variability in poll results, and the impact of polls on reporters, the public and the state of American democracy.
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the problems and possibilities of polling by media organizations in the 1990s and beyond. It addresses ...
Describes how the U.S. Congress functions as it deliberates and develops health policy and includes coverage of committee organization and jurisdictions, the budgeting process, congressional oversight functions, and case study analysis of the failed Clinton health reform plan.
Describes how the U.S. Congress functions as it deliberates and develops health policy and includes coverage of committee organization and jurisdictio...
The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense. Recent Congressional elections fly in the face of those requirements, however, with a startling lack of competition, growing ideological polarization, and a fierce struggle between the parties to manipulate the electoral rules of the game. Party Lines addresses these problems head on in an authoritative and timely analysis of redistricting in the United States. The practice of state legislatures redrawing district lines after the decennial...
The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sen...
The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nation's most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House and the stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled Republicans into the...
The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two ex...
