Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform Paperback - 2003
by Bradley A. Smith
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To place modern issues of campaign finance in perspective, it is helpful to review, even briefly, the history of campaign finance and efforts to regulate political contributions and spending.
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"A wonderful, timely, and accessible book about one of the most pressing public questions of our time: the issue of campaign finance reform. Bedeviling our nation's political community for more than twenty-five years, the dispute over how best to regulate political campaign funding--and hence political campaign speech--has pitted free speech advocates against good government reformers, Democrats against Republicans, and courts against legislatures. Bradley Smith's highly readable book navigates all of these crosscurrents in a balanced way that informs the reader of the basic elements of the debates, while deftly skewering the key components of the conventional wisdom by arguing for the elimination of laws limiting campaign funding."--Joel Gora, Brooklyn Law School
"To date no one has written a sustained, book-length argument for the deregulation of campaign financing. Bradley Smith's Unfree Speech is a welcome step in filling that gap. He addresses numerous important themes, including the inroads on freedom of speech caused by campaign finance regulation, the tendency of reformers to exaggerate the harms of campaign finance and to seek increasing restrictions on speech, and the tendency for the burden of regulation to fall most heavily on everyday citizens."--Daniel Lowenstein, UCLA
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- Title Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
- Author Bradley A. Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2003-03-17
- ISBN 9780691113692 / 0691113696
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.08 x 0.81 in (23.77 x 15.44 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00059818
- Dewey Decimal Code 324.780
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