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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2005.
Description
1 online resource (322 p.)

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In this book, more than a dozen experts offer a broad and skeptical assessment of taxpayer financing of election campaigns.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9786611905705
  • 9781933995694
  • 1933995696
  • 9781281905703
  • 1281905704
  • 9781598755923
  • 1598755927
OCLC
  • 615631574
  • 437152903
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