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The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws
Robert G. Boatright, editor
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For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a harbinger of things to come elsewhere or further evidence that the United States remains an anomaly?
In this volume, experts on the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Sweden, France, and several other European nations explore what deregulation means in the context of political campaigns and demonstrate how such comparisons can inform the study of campaign finance in the U.S. Whereas the contributors do not settle on any single theory of change in campaign finance law or any single perspective on the relationship between changes seen in the U.S. and those in other nations over the past decade, they do concur that the U.S. is rapidly retreating from the types of regulations that defined campaign finance law in most democratic nations during the latter decades of the twentieth century. By tracing and analyzing the recent history of regulation, the contributors shed light on many pressing topics, including the relationship between public opinion and campaign finance law, the role of scandals in inspiring reform, and the changing incentives of political parties, interest groups, and the courts.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Regulation and Deregulation of Political Finance
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Part I: The Deregulation of U.S. Campaigns
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1 | Campaign Finance Deregulation in the United States: What Has Changed and Why Does It Matter?
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2 | U.S. Interest Groups in a Deregulated Campaign Finance System
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Part II: Regulation, Deregulation, and Electoral Advantage
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3 | Shaping the Battlefield: Partisan Self-Interest and Election Finance Reform in Canada, 2003–2014
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4 | Partisan Interest and Political Finance Reform in Australia
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5 | Britain’s “Stop-Go” Approach to Party Finance Reform
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Part III: The End of the “Regulatory Moment” in Europe?
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6 | Slow Convergence or No Change at All? The Development of West European Party Funding Regimes, 2003–2013
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7 | More, and More Inclusive, Regulation: The Legal Parameters of Public Funding in Europe
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Conclusions: Deregulating Party Finance: Is the United States an Outlier or a Pioneer?
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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- 978-0-472-05285-1 (paper)
- 978-0-472-07285-9 (hardcover)