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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827936003321

Autore

Redish Martin H

Titolo

Money talks : speech, economic power, and the values of democracy / / Martin H. Redish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8147-6918-7

0-8147-7677-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Disciplina

323.44/3/0973

Soggetti

Campaign funds - United States

Freedom of speech - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Intersection between Free Speechand Economic Power; 2 Commercial Speech and Democratic Values; 3 Corporate Speech and the Theory of Free Expression; 4 Free Speech and the Flawed Postulates of CampaignFinance Regulation; 5 The Right of Expressive Access, Redistributive Values,and the Democratic Dilemma; 6 Government Subsidies and Free Expression; 7 Conclusion: Free Expression and the Sound of Money; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The nation's primary sources of communication, the argument goes, are increasingly controlled by vast corporate empires whose primary, or even exclusive motive is the maximization of profit. And these conglomerates should simply not be granted the same constitutional protection as, say, an individual p