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  • On the Causes of Campaign Finance Reform: Power, Parties, and Ideology

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    Nwokora, Zim
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    Nwokora, Zim G.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    In this paper I present ideas on why reforms to campaign finance laws occur. In particular I focus on the conditions that are likely to foster or frustrate the enactment of laws that make elections more competitive (competition-enhancing reforms). This class of reforms holds normative significance; as prominent theorists emphasize, the competitiveness of elections is elemental to functioning democracy.1 Thus, I do not aim to present a theory to explain every type of reform - or even all of those reforms that may have consequences for the competitiveness of elections - but rather to present conjectures based on deductions ...
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    In this paper I present ideas on why reforms to campaign finance laws occur. In particular I focus on the conditions that are likely to foster or frustrate the enactment of laws that make elections more competitive (competition-enhancing reforms). This class of reforms holds normative significance; as prominent theorists emphasize, the competitiveness of elections is elemental to functioning democracy.1 Thus, I do not aim to present a theory to explain every type of reform - or even all of those reforms that may have consequences for the competitiveness of elections - but rather to present conjectures based on deductions from well known political science theories, which may (or may not) provide useful baselines for rigorous empirical investigations.
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    Conference Title
    Democratic Audit of Australia
    Publisher URI
    http://democraticaudit.org.au/?p=755
    http://democraticaudit.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Nwokora.pdf
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2011. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author.
    Subject
    Comparative Government and Politics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/46262
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