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Record Nr.

UNINA9911004890503321

Titolo

Welfare for politicians? : taxpayer financing of campaigns / / edited by John Samples

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Cato Institute, c2005

ISBN

9786611905705

9781933995694

1933995696

9781281905703

1281905704

9781598755923

1598755927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SamplesJohn Curtis <1956->

Disciplina

324.7/8/0973

Soggetti

Campaign funds - 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

The case against taxpayer financing: a view from Massachusetts / Thomas M. Finneran -- Three lessons from Arizona / Chip Mellor -- Elections in Arizona, clean and unclean / Robert J. Franciosi -- Does cleanliness lead to competitiveness? the failure of Maine's experiment / Patrick Basham and Martin Zelder -- Our democracy, our airwaves / Paul Taylor -- Why subsidize the soapbox? the McCain free airtime proposal and the future of broadcasting / John Samples and Adam Thierer -- The Constitutional case against 'free' airtime / Laurence H. Winter -- Reform without reason? the scientific method and campaign finance / Jeffrey Milyo and David Primo -- The failure of taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns / John Samples -- Are matching funds only 'for losers'? a post-2004 vision for a renewed public funding system / Michael J. Malbin -- Taxpayer financing in comparative perspective / Patrick Basham.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, more than a dozen experts offer a broad and skeptical assessment of taxpayer financing of election campaigns.