Influencing the state: U.S. campaign finance and its discontents

Rogan Kersh

doi:10.1080/08913810308443580

Influencing the state: U.S. campaign finance and its discontents

Rogan Kersh

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Among the principal targets of criticism in recent American politics has been the alleged corruption, inequity, overall cost, and regulatory complexity of the U.S. campaign-finance system. Scholarship has not borne out any of these criticisms, and, if anything, empirical investigation suggests that the current system does a fair job in addressing - as much as this is possible under modern conditions - the problem of public ignorance in mass democracies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	203-219
Number of pages	17
Journal	Critical Review
Volume	15
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08913810308443580
State	Published - 2003

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Literature and Literary Theory

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