Dollars and Votes

by Dan Clawson, Mark Weller, Alan Neustadtl

Recent scandals, including questionable fun-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront of the news and the public consciousness. Dollars and Votes goes beyond the partial, often misleading, news stories and official records to explain how our campaign system operates. The authors conducted thorough interviews with corporate "government relations" officials about what they do and why they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566396263
• ISBN13: 9781566396264
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Much less dry than the title suggests

This is a well written and concise account of the mechanisms by which wealthy individuals and corporate interests manipulate the legislative process. Anyone who wants to understand why, despite clean-air legislation, we do not have clean air, or why tax cuts always seem to be for other people, should read this book. The authors supply cogently argued solutions as well as detailed analyses of why the political system needs fundamental reform.