TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Rodney A.
TI  - Money, power & elections: how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy 
T2  - Politics@media
AV  - JK1991 .S65 2006eb
U1  - 324.7/80973 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Campaign funds
KW  - United States
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Published in cooperation with the Kevin P. Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs."; Includes bibliographical references; The folly of reform -- The rise and fall of citizen sovereignty -- Rome : a flawed model -- Citizen sovereignty : the dearest thing of all -- The constitution and America's first political campaign -- American democracy and political parties -- What is an election, anyway? -- Political campaigns and money -- The perceived corruption of money versus the real corruption of power -- We the sovereigns, not we the subjects -- The crux of the problem -- Supreme Court mandates run amok -- Empirical evidence -- Freedom of the press -- Political fund-raising : the current reality -- The twenty-eighth amendment
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10848458
ER  -