DOCSLIB.ORG

Brief History of Campaign Finance Reform

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Brief History of Campaign Finance Reform PATTERNS OF FAILURE: RETHINKING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM - WHAT WENT WRONG? By ROGER Q. AUSTIN III A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2015 © 2015 Roger Q. Austin III To my parents Roger and Sally Austin ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am very grateful to everyone whose assistance has made the completion of this dissertation possible. It would not have been possible without the help and support of my parents, family, friends, colleagues and mentors. I especially want to thank the dedicated members of my dissertation committee who hung in there with me through thick and thin: Chairman Daniel A. Smith, Co-Chair Lawrence C. Dodd, Beth Rosenson, Richard Scher and David Colburn. I feel honored to have had such a distinguished committee – your counsel and advice was needed as much as it was appreciated. I would also like to thank everyone in the Political Science Department – you have all been very supportive over the years while I have meandered through this process while trying to also earn a living – your patience and encouragement are much appreciated. At the risk of omitting anyone, special thanks go to Dr. Steve Craig, Sue Lawless- Yanchisin, Pat Root and Debbie Wallen. Finally, and once again, at the risk of omitting someone, I would like to thank my friends, far too many to name individually, but you know who you are. Special thanks goes to my close friends and confidants and who never stopped encouraging me to finish this damn thing – Ryan Garcia, Kevin Kuchenbaur, Liz Stinson, Will Foster, Barry Edwards, my editor-in-chief Kyle Fitzpatrick and last but certainly not least, my biggest cheerleader, Phyllis Batchelder. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................. 4 LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ 8 ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1 IDENTIFYING THE PATTERNS OF FAILURE ....................................................... 11 Research Question ................................................................................................. 11 Campaign Finance Reform is a Critical and Timely Issue....................................... 17 The Premises and Promises of Campaign Finance Reform ................................... 32 Defining Failure ....................................................................................................... 34 Preview of Chapters................................................................................................ 37 2 INTELLECTUAL PATTERNS OF FAILURE ........................................................... 43 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 43 The Premises and Promises of Campaign Finance Reform ................................... 46 The Categories of Failure ....................................................................................... 49 Enforcement/Prohibition ................................................................................... 54 Transparency/Publicity ..................................................................................... 58 Fungibility ......................................................................................................... 61 The Academic Literature ......................................................................................... 62 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 75 3 EMPIRICAL PATTERNS OF FAILURE .................................................................. 79 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 79 Brief History of Campaign Finance Reform ............................................................. 81 Categories of Analysis of Empirical Failures of Execution ...................................... 85 Execution Failure #1 – Enforcement ....................................................................... 87 The Tillman Act of 1907 ................................................................................... 87 The Publicity Acts of 1910 and 1911 ................................................................ 89 The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 ...................................................... 90 The Hatch Act of 1940 ...................................................................................... 92 The Smith-Connally Act of 1943 ....................................................................... 95 The Federal Election Campaign Acts of 1971 and 1974 .................................. 99 Independent Expenditures ....................................................................... 105 Soft money ............................................................................................... 105 Bundling ................................................................................................... 106 Federal Election Commission .................................................................. 107 The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) .................................. 111 5 Execution Failure #2 – Fungibility ......................................................................... 115 The Tillman Act of 1907 ................................................................................. 116 The Publicity Acts of 1910 and 1911 .............................................................. 116 The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 .................................................... 117 The Hatch Act of 1940 .................................................................................... 117 The Smith-Connally Act of 1943 ..................................................................... 120 The Federal Election Campaign Acts of 1971 and 1974 (FECA) ................... 121 Independent Expenditures ....................................................................... 122 Soft Money ............................................................................................... 122 Bundling ................................................................................................... 123 Federal Election Commission .................................................................. 124 PACs with parents ................................................................................... 124 Polling ...................................................................................................... 125 The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ............................................... 125 Execution Failure #3 - Transparency .................................................................... 127 The Tillman Act of 1907 ................................................................................. 129 The Publicity Acts of 1910 and 1911 .............................................................. 130 The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 .................................................... 131 The Hatch Act of 1940 .................................................................................... 133 The Smith-Connally Act of 1943 ..................................................................... 133 The Federal Election Campaign Acts of 1971 and 1974 (FECA) ................... 134 Independent Expenditures ....................................................................... 135 Soft Money ............................................................................................... 136 Bundling ................................................................................................... 136 Federal Election Commission .................................................................. 136 PACs with parents ................................................................................... 137 The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) .................................. 137 Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 138 4 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND THE THEORETICAL PATTERNS OF FAILURE ............................................................................................................... 144 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 144 Path Dependency ................................................................................................. 146 The Supreme Court .............................................................................................. 149 Unintended Consequences Of The Patterns of Failure ........................................ 157 The Tillman Act .............................................................................................. 158 The Publicity Acts of 1910-1911 ..................................................................... 159 The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 .................................................... 159 The Hatch Act of 1940 .................................................................................... 159 The Smith-Connally Act of 1943 ....................................................................
Load more

Recommended publications
  • David J Siemers
    David J. Siemers Office Home Department of Political Science 1406 Lake Breeze Rd. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54904 800 Algoma Blvd. (920) 426-4289 (920) 424-0435 fax: (920) 424-0739 email: [email protected] Teaching Experience University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Assistant Professor, 2001-05; Associate Professor, 2005- 10, Professor, 2010-present; Chair, 2011-15 US Presidency, American Political Thought, Modern Political Thought, Honors Seminar-Education, Ancient Political Thought, Political Film, American Government and Politics, Congress and the Legislative Process, Honors American Government and Politics, Honors Seminar-Ethics, Honors Introductory Seminar-Education, Lincoln’s Politics, Politics, Power and Protest in Great Britain (study abroad), Political Analysis (capstone), Power, Justice, and the State (FYE offering) Colorado College Colorado Springs, Colorado, Visiting Asst. Professor, 1999-2001 American Political Thought, The Western Political Tradition, Politics and Film, the Presidency, American Politics Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts, Visiting Asst. Professor, 1998-1999 American Pol. Thought, Intro. to American Gov’t, Congress and the Leg. Process Bradley University Peoria, Illinois, Visiting Asst. Professor, 1997-1998 Intro. to American Government, Intro. to Theory, American Political Thought University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant, 1992-96--Depts. of Pol. Science and Integrated Liberal Studies American Politics, Ancient Political Thought, Modern Political Thought Education University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin) Ph.D. Political Science, August, 1997 M.A. Political Science, December, 1992 St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) B.A. Political Science, 1991, Magna cum Laude Publications Book: Presidents and Political Thought, University of Missouri Press, 2009. “What did the president know and when did he know it” takes on a whole new meaning in Presidents and Political Thought.
    [Show full text]
  • Oklahoma Conference Journal 2012
    S ECTION J MEMOIRS Memoirs 359 CLERGY CLERGY SPOUSES Glenda Kay Buchanan Mildred Cleo Bonham James Robert Bullock Eleanor May Cochran Rollo Dwayne Conner Joyce Adams Curtis Robert Edde Kim Lynell Davis William Jake Higgins Dorothy Ann Ging Joe Lawrence Hock Samuell Henry Goody Arthur Lyons Jr. Doris Joann Haddock Paul Lee Overton Jr. Vicki Lyn Hall Arthur Ray Radabaugh Mary Louise Keefe Donald Scott Waters Lorene Doherty Kelly Daniel Dean Wynn Wanda Jean Lemons Conrad Wendell Young Idelle Ophelia McDaniel Mattie Ada Meyer Ruth Mitchell Vera Jean Phelps Marian Spearman Pope Cleta Smith C. Royleen Wells Audrey Wilson Irene Lynn Woodall LuWanda Deloris Young 360 Memoirs CLERGY Rev. Kay Buchanan Rev. Glenda Kay Buchanan, 67, of Oklahoma City died July 21, 2012. Kay was born Aug. 10, 1944, in Olney, Texas. Her family traveled as her father worked as an oilfield driller; they settled in Madill, Okla., in 1951. While attending Oklahoma Baptist School of Nursing, she met and married Robert Neil Buchanan. Their children were born while they lived in Louisiana. Kay’s first career was in the field of nursing, including home healthcare and hospital administration. When she moved back to Madill, she continued in that field and became active at First UMC. Then she answered God’s call to clergy ministry and graduated summa cum laude in 2004 from Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. She was ordained as an elder in 2007. Beginning in 1998, she pastored at Wilson, Hugo-First, Ardmore-Asbury, and Pond Creek United Methodist Churches. She retired in 2012.
    [Show full text]
  • How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America Brian Christopher Hurley University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Theses and Dissertations 5-2016 Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America Brian Christopher Hurley University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd Part of the Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Hurley, Brian Christopher, "Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 1530. http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1530 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History by Brian C. Hurley Colby College Bachelor of Arts in History and Religious Studies, 2003 May 2016 University of Arkansas This dissertation is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council. ____________________________________________________ Dr. Elliott West Dissertation Director _____________________________________________________ Dr. Michael Pierce
    [Show full text]
  • What Did the Direct Primary Do to Party Loyalty in Congress?1
    WHAT DID THE DIRECT PRIMARY DO TO PARTY LOYALTY IN CONGRESS?1 Stephen Ansolabehere Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shigeo Hirano Department of Politics New York University and Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Princeton University James M. Snyder, Jr. Department of Political Science and Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology March, 2004 1Professor Ansolabehere and Professor Snyder thank the National Science Foundation for its generous ¯nancial support. We thank Gary Jacobsen, John Huber, and seminar participants at Columbia University for their helpful comments. Abstract Between 1890 and 1920, most states adopted the direct primary as the method for nominat- ing candidates for the U. S. House. It was widely thought at the time that this mechanism would produce greater independence from the parties inside the legislature, would increase the defeat rate of sitting incumbents who were party stalwarts, and would produce greater independence of candidates from their parties in the general elections; this would take the form of decreased party loyalty in the legislature, and increased split ticket voting in the electorate. In this paper, we examine the panel of elections and roll call votes from 1890 to 1920 and ¯nd some evidence for these conjectures. Loyalty in Congress did fall among a state's congressional delegation following the introduction of the primary. Also, incumbent defeat rates for renomination and split ticket voting increased in states that introduced the primaries compared with states that did not. The data reveal, however, suggest that the pri- maries were not transformative. The e®ects of primaries on loyalty and elections, although statistically signi¯cant, they are quite modest and likely had only marginal e®ects on con- gressional politics, with one important exception.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Charles E. Merriam Papers 1893-1957
    University of Chicago Library Guide to the Charles E. Merriam Papers 1893-1957 © 2006 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 8 Information on Use 8 Access 8 Citation 8 Biographical Note 8 Scope Note 9 Related Resources 19 Subject Headings 19 INVENTORY 19 Series I: Personal Papers 19 Subseries 1: Miscellaneous 20 Subseries 2: Family Correspondence 21 Subseries 3: Autobiography 22 Subseries 4: Class notes taken by CEM as a student 22 Sub-subseries 1: American History 22 Sub-subseries 2: Economics and Sociology 23 Sub-subseries 3: Law Courses 23 Sub-subseries 4: Political Philosophy 24 Sub-subseries 5: Miscellaneous 24 Sub-subseries 6: Overseas Study 25 Sub-subseries 7: Documents 27 Series II: General Correspondence 27 Subseries 1: 1902-1908 29 Subseries 2: 1909-1919 31 Subseries 4: 1933-1943 69 Subseries 5: 1944-1952 89 Series III: Chicago Politics 104 Subseries 1: Early Chicago Politics 104 Subseries 2: Charter Conventions 105 Subseries 3: Election Campaigns (other than mayoral) 107 Subseries 4: City Council Service 1900-1917 110 Subseries 5: City Council Committees 111 Subseries 6: Chicago Commission on City Expenditures 111 Subseries 7: Preliminary Reports 112 Subseries 8: Newspaper Clippings on Scandals and Investigations 113 Subseries 9: Transcripts of Testimony Before the Commission 114 Subseries 10: Crime Committee 114 Subseries 11: Politics in the 1920s 115 Subseries 12: Chicago Politics in the 1930s 117 Sub-subseries 1: Election Campaign of 1930 117 Sub-subseries 2: Election Campaign of 1931 117 Sub-subseries 4: Administration of Mayor Cermak 117 Sub-subseries 5: Administration of Mayor Kelly 118 Subseries 13: Chicago Politics in the 1940s 120 Subseries 14: The Charles S.
    [Show full text]
  • Defendant FEC's Motion for Summary
    Case 1:15-cv-01241-CRC-SS-TSC Document 41 Filed 03/18/16 Page 1 of 131 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ) LOUISIANA, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) Civ. No. 15-1241 (CRC-SS-TSC) ) v. ) ) FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, ) MOTION FOR SUMMARY ) JUDGMENT Defendant. ) ) DEFENDANT FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Defendant Federal Election Commission (“Commission”) respectfully moves this Court for an order (1) granting summary judgment to the Commission pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Civil Rule 7(h), and (2) denying plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion (Docket No. 33). In support of this motion, the Commission is filing a Memorandum in Support of Its Motion for Summary Judgment and in Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment, a Statement of Material Facts and accompanying Exhibits, and a Proposed Order. Pursuant to the protective order entered in this case, the Commission is separately submitting under seal unredacted versions of its Statement of Material Facts and Exhibits that plaintiffs have designated as confidential. Respectfully submitted, Daniel A. Petalas (D.C. Bar No. 467908) Seth Nesin Acting General Counsel Attorney [email protected] [email protected] Lisa J. Stevenson (D.C. Bar No. 457628) Greg J. Mueller (D.C. Bar No. 462840) Deputy General Counsel — Law Attorney [email protected] [email protected] Case 1:15-cv-01241-CRC-SS-TSC Document 41 Filed 03/18/16 Page 2 of 131 Kevin Deeley /s/ Charles Kitcher Acting Associate General Counsel Charles Kitcher (D.C. Bar No. 986226) [email protected] Attorney [email protected] Harry J.
    [Show full text]
  • The American Political Science Review
    The American Political Science Review https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms BOARD OF EDITORS KENNETH C. COLE, FKITZ MORSTEIN MARX University of Washington Queens College ROBERT E. CUSHMAN, LENNOX A. MILLS, Cornell University University of Minnesota CLYDE EAQLETON, LOUISE OVERACKER New York University Wellesley College E. PENDLETON HERRING, DONALD C. STONE, Harvard University U. S. Bureau of the Budget , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at WALTER H. C. LAVES, CARL B. SWISHER, University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University FREDERIC A. Oao, Managing Editor, University of Wisconsin 30 Sep 2021 at 17:49:05 , on VOLUME XXXIX 170.106.202.8 1945 . IP address: GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY MENASHA, WISCONSIN 1945 Reprinted with the permission of the American Political Science Association https://www.cambridge.org/core JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION JOHNSON REPRINT COMPANY LTD. Ill Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 Berkeley Square House, London, W.I. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400054824 Downloaded from . https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at 30 Sep 2021 at 17:49:05 , on 170.106.202.8 . IP address: https://www.cambridge.org/core First reprinting, 1969, Johnson Reprint Corporation Printed in the United States of America https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400054824 Downloaded from . CONTENTS NUMBER 1—FEBBUAKY, 1945 Congressional Control of the Public Service, Leonard D. White 1 The Dilemma of the Peace-Seekers, Frederick L. Schuman 12 American Government and Politics The Communist Party of the USA, Barrington Moore, Jr 31 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Dissent on the Supreme Court, 1943-44, C.
    [Show full text]
  • Campaign Finance Regulation and the First Amendment Bradley A
    Journal of Law and Policy Volume 6 Issue 1 INAUGURAL DAVID G. TRAGER PUBLIC Article 2 POLICY SYMPOSIUM: Campaign Finance Reform: Will Anything Work? 1997 The irS ens' Song: Campaign Finance Regulation and the First Amendment Bradley A. Smith Follow this and additional works at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/jlp Recommended Citation Bradley A. Smith, The Sirens' Song: Campaign Finance Regulation and the First Amendment, 6 J. L. & Pol'y (1997). Available at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/jlp/vol6/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at BrooklynWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Law and Policy by an authorized editor of BrooklynWorks. THE SIRENS' SONG: CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT Bradley A. Smith* Listen with care to this, now, and a god will arm your mind. Square in your ship 's path are Seirenes, crying beauty to bewitch men coasting by; woe to the innocent who hears that sound,1 INTRODUCTION After the elections of 1996, it is clear that the campaign finance regulation system for federal elections is not working. At the presidential level, the system is in danger of becoming a mockery. Despite spending limits designed to keep campaign costs lower, it is estimated that, upon final tally, some $800 million will actually have been legally spent on the 1996 presidential race.2 At the con- gressional level, parties, candidates and interest groups have learned how to work around legal restrictions on contributions. The result is an increasingly dishonest campaign in which advertisements touting candidates are used for "party building," advertisements intended to help elect or defeat candidates pretend not to advocate such outcomes, and parties are forced to campaign independently of their candidates.3 * The author is an Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
    [Show full text]
  • Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process
    REFORMING THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING PROCESS PAUL T. DAVID* It is the function of the presidential nominating process to identify the candidates who can be made the subject of a presidential election; it is the function of the general election to make the final choice. Because of this characteristic difference in function, the nominating process differs from the general election process in respects that are fundamental to the manner in which each should be conducted. An election for President, as long as the two-party system holds together, is essenti- ally a choice between two candidates, each of whom was formally identified some time in advance, has become familiar to the voters through active campaigning, and has the support in the election of a permanently organized national political party. None of these features is true of the nominating process. It has to begin in the first place by ascertaining the alternatives among whom a choice may be made, seldom deals with a choice between two candidates and only two, frequently involves a comparison between some candidates who are well known and others who are little known and goes on inside the political party from which support will be obtained-after the choice has been made. Much of what is most important in the nominating process occurs before there is any short list of definite candidates on whom to concentrate attention. These aspects of the process will be neglected here, moving on immediately to special char- acteristics of the nominating choice that become apparent after the field of candidates for a party nomination has become relatively clear.' SOME CHARACTErISTICs OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING CHOICE I.
    [Show full text]
  • Party Primaries for Candidate Selection? Right Question, Wrong Answer
    964 UNSW Law Journal Volume 34(3) PARTY PRIMARIES FOR CANDIDATE SELECTION? RIGHT QUESTION, WRONG ANSWER GRAEME ORR ∗ I INTRODUCTION Political parties act as gatekeepers to Parliament,1 and hence to law-making and ministerial government. Theirs is gatekeeping in a special sense, however. Occupational gatekeepers screen entrants to professions using defined and transparent measures. The process of becoming an MP, however, is a thoroughly political one. As Lord Hoffmann observed, ‘the main criterion is likely to be the popularity of the candidate with the voters … the candidate who, for whatever reason, seems … most likely to win’. 2 Along with that criterion, internal party ideology, rivalries and factionalism may play a part. Given the long-standing dominance by parties of electoral politics – and hence of Parliaments, law- making and executive governance – the gatekeeping role of parties is not merely a matter of internal party concern, but of considerable interest to the wider community and to public law itself. In the common law world, this parliamentary gatekeeping is described as candidate ‘endorsement’ or ‘preselection’. 3 These very terms imply that the process is within the party’s control. They assume a coherent, intentional body, identifiable as ‘the party’, which gives its imprimatur to candidates to contest general elections on its behalf. In contrast, candidate selection in the United States of America (‘US’) is taken out of the hands of parties, and placed in the hands of a broader electorate. Through the mechanism of the direct primary election, candidate selection in the US is more open, and even more political (in the public sense), 4 than elsewhere.
    [Show full text]
  • The Walking Judge from Alabama, 29 Fordham Urb
    Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 29 | Number 3 Article 3 2002 The alW king Judge From Alabama The onorH able Pamela Willis Baschab Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Part of the Judges Commons Recommended Citation The onorH able Pamela Willis Baschab, The Walking Judge From Alabama, 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 827 (2002). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol29/iss3/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE WALKING JUDGE FROM ALABAMA The Honorable Pamela Willis Baschab* Unless you have been there, the humidity and heat in South Ala- bama are unimaginable. Even during the last days of May, the sun bears down and the heat rises from the asphalt in undulating waves. Anyone who would walk along the highway at noon on the outskirts of Mobile would have to have a very good reason. And I did. Last year I trudged along Highway 31, carrying a walking stick with a sign, an American flag, and an Alabama flag. I was drenched in sweat and sunburned. Exhausted but elated to be nearing the end of my long journey. Two months previously on a cold and rainy day in March, I had stood on the Alabama-Tennes- see state line preparing for the first steps of a 411 mile walk from one end of my state to the other.
    [Show full text]
  • Regulation of Political Contributions
    . REGULATION !< F l:' t.f2/.~ t 'f'"'l ."~ of .. , t--' ~ \"::, 1.~,::.. " /! POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS I I I SEP 2 "( 1972 SUTE Of UAWAU Roger Y. Dewa Assistant Researcher Report No.6, 1968 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Price $2.50 FOREWORD This report on "Regulation of Political contributions" describes and analyzes the dilemma confronting legislators ••• on the one hand, attempting to regulate participation of corporations and business interests that may exercise too great an influence on the political process by large campaign contributions; and on the other hand, attempting to increase public participation. This study is the Bureau's response to House Resolution No. 276 (General Session of 1967) which requested the Legislative Reference Bureau to study" .•. the prohibitive, permissive and incentive legislation by the States relating to political contributions by corporations and businessmen •••• " The Resolution also expressed special concern that " ••• State legislation should promote and encourage political participation by all sectors of the community. " Therefore, this study deals primarily with federal and state legis­ lation regulating political contributions, but it also examines the· difficult problem involved in achieving the goal of broad based participation in the political process. We are especially grateful to those who assisted in the prepara­ tion of this report and particularly in its review: Dr. Allan F. Saunders, Senior Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii; Mr. Wayne K. Minami and Mr. Patrick A. Stanley of the University of Hawaii; Mr. Robert C. Oshiro, State Chairman, Democratic Party of Hawaii; and Mr. Edward E. Johnston, State Chairman, Repub­ lican Party of Hawaii.
    [Show full text]