POSC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Incumbent, Unanimous Consent, Federal Election Campaign Act
24 Apr 2016
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In the us, campaigns are more candidate centered than party centered so candidates must: a. i. Design and execute their own individual campaign strategies: above is expensive. Ads more important now that media have surpassed parties as information source: privately financed elections raise two problems: c. i. But money is distributed unequally this its role in electoral politics threatens democratic equality c. ii. Privately financed elections raise suspicion that elected officials will serve as the agents of their contributors rather than their constituents c. iii. Regulating campaign money: before 1970s campaign money was effectively unregulated a. i. Established partial public financing of presidential elections a. i. 1. b. Required public disclosure of contributions and expenditures a. i. 1. c. Capped individual and pac contributions a. i. 1. c. i. (political action committees) a. i. 1. c. i. 1. Buckley v. valeo (1976) on 1st amendment grounds (limit of free speech: new problems emerged (unintended consequences) b. i. Independent expenditure: when an outside group spends their own money on a campaign: congress responded: c. i.
