The issues surrounding money in American elections are continually controversial. How much does money affect the outcome of elections? Do those who help finance candidates exert undue influence in the making of public policy? In this landmark book, one of America’s most distinguished political scientists explores the dynamics and consequences of campaign finance in America and explodes many myths about this widely debated subject. Frank J. Sorauf provides balanced and informative commentary on such critical issues in campaign financing as:- the growing problems of regulating American campaign finance under the post-Watergate legislation of 1974;- the forces that affect the supply of money available for campaigning, from economic conditions to the competitiveness of elections;- the increasing power of incumbent candidates in the two-way exchange between candidates and contributors;- political learning and the search for ways to avoid the laws on campaign finance;- the myths and realities about the role and influence of PACs;- the vanishing funds for public funding of the presidential campaigns;- the new middlemen and brokers (e.g., the case of Charles Keating);- the major options for reform: private versus public funding;- the political deadlock over reform: parties, public opinion, and the interests of incumbents;- the possibility of new levels of competition and spending in 1992. Sorauf argues that the American system of campaign financing has become increasingly stable and institutionalized during the last sixteen years, and that the major players in the system―PACs, individual fund-raisers, party committees, and incumbent candidates―now behave in fairly predictable ways. His book is a fresh and persuasive account of the importance and the limits of money as a base of political influence in the United States.

Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities

Politics & Social Sciences

Sorauf, Frank J.

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Updated in a new 14th edition, this book has been long considered the gold standard of political parties texts.  It covers the historic 2008 Presidential campaign and election while looking ahead to assess what the shifting political winds have in store for the future of the major political parties and Americans’ political views.

Party Politics in America

Little,Brown

Part of the “Longman Classics in Political Science” series and the gold standard of political parties texts, this new edition includes in-depth analysis of the 2006 campaigns and election and previews what lies ahead for the parties in the 2008 and 2010 Presidential and Congressional Elections. Party Politics in America analyzes the interaction of the three primary components of parties–party organization, party in the electorate, and party in government. Originally written by Frank Sorauf and now authored by Marjorie Hershey, the book integrates research with contemporary and historical examples to bring the fascinating story of how parties have helped to shape our political system to life.

Party politics in America

Beck, Paul Allen

Scott,Foresman

Here is a lucid, groundbreaking book on money in American elections that defines the subject and puts its complex and often arcane components into an orderly, comprehensible picture. This balance overview centers on congressional and presidential campaigns and the individuals, PACs, parties, and public monies that fund them. Professor Sorauf also deals systematically with the politics of campaign finance and with the important issues of policy and impact that surround the entire subject. Without moralism and without muckraking, this comprehensive work decisively takes up the concern that money affects the outcomes of elections, that it wins undue influence in the making of public policy, and that it creates a new class of influentials in American Politics. The following from the author's Introduction: "The plan of this book should be evident from its structure and text, even from its table of contents. But an author's hopes for a book may be less apparent. I have written this one to bring what have been disparate materials into a summary and interpretation of what we know about a single subject: the way we finance American election campaigns. I hope it will help to organize and define, both for research and for teaching, what can easily seem to be a mixture of arcane data, insider's lore, and heated judgments."

Money in American Elections

Scott, Foresman Co.

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Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities

Party Politics in America

Party politics in America

Party Politics in America

Money in American Elections