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Campaigns, Congress, and Courts
The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law
Robert E. Mutch
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Campaigns, Congress, and Courts

The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law

Robert E. Mutch Robert E. Mutch

April 1988

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Campaigns, Congress, and Courts presents a political history of the passage, judicial interpretation, and administration of federal campaign finance law from 1907 to the present. The volume focuses on the post-Watergate years and analyzes the ideological and partisan conflicts which shape congressional and public debate over how, or whether, to regulate political money. The book opens with an account of the first law, then moves to the Watergate period while explaining the background of the 1970's reforms. Subsequent chapters examine the origin and passage of legislation through case studies, focusing on congressional debates and roll call votes; analyze the arguments of reformers and their opponents in court battles over these laws; demonstrate how the press and public opinion effect the legislative climate; assess the creation of the Federal Election Commission, its quasi-judicial role, and the political cross pressures to which it is subject; and explain the rise of labor and business PACs.
The First Laws
From Teapot Dome to Watergate
Money and Speech: The Debate Over Contribution and Spending Limits
Disclosure, Enforcement, and the FEC
Public Financing
Unions, Corporations, and the Rise of PACs
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This is a scholarly history and review of the US attempt to regulate campaign finance. It includes an extensive, technical analysis of the long struggle to enact limitations on campaign finance contributions and spending. Mutch also discusses how the federal courts have restricted the application of the legislation. No other work examines the legislative history of campaign finance in the US in so much detail. It is well written, thoroughly researched, careful, and highly technical in analysis. As such it is of interest only to the serious graduate student and to faculty members who seek detailed information on US parties and elections.—Choice





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