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Subject(s)

• Campaign funds—United States [Browse]
• Campaign funds—Canada [Browse]
• Pressure groups—United States [Browse]
• Pressure groups—Canada [Browse]

Summary note

In the early 2000s, the US and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Boatright explains the results by placing the reforms in the context of ongoing political and technological changes.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

Local notes

Y

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction : interest groups and campaign finance reform a natural experiment
• Part I : the roots of reform
• Interest group studies in Canada and the United States
• Interest group politics of the 1990s and the campaign finance reform movement
• Campaign finance reform
• Part II : consequences of reform
• Measuring the effects of reform
• The American response
• The Canadian response
• Lessons
• Reform goals and values
• Appendix : a primer on brokerage parties.

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ISBN

• 1-283-04445-5
• 9786613044457
• 0-472-02675-5

OCLC

712773894

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