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15 décembre 2013

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9780801469527

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In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private and often anonymous money can have on political platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal and state level. In McComish v. Bennett (2011), the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the matching funds feature of so-called "Clean Elections" public financing laws, but there has been no strong challenge to the constitutionality of public funding as such. In Subsidizing Democracy, Michael G. Miller considers the impact of state-level public election financing on political campaigns through the eyes of candidates. Miller's insights are drawn from survey data obtained from more than 1,000 candidates, elite interview testimony, and twenty years of election data. This book is therefore not only an effort to judge the effects of existing public election funding but also a study of elite behavior, campaign effects, and the structural factors that influence campaigns and voters. The presence of publicly funded candidates in elections, Miller reports, results in broad changes to the electoral system, including more interaction between candidates and the voting public and significantly higher voter participation. He presents evidence that by providing neophytes with resources that would have been unobtainable otherwise, subsidies effectively manufacture quality challengers. Miller describes how matching-funds provisions of Clean Elections laws were pervasively manipulated by candidates and parties and were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court. A revealing book that will change the way we think about campaign funding, Subsidizing Democracy concludes with an evaluation of existing proposals for future election policy in light of Miller's findings.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 décembre 2013

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EAN13

9780801469527

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English

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Subsidizing Democracy

How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future

Michael G. Miller

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2014 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Miller, Michael Gerald, author. Subsidizing democracy : how public funding changes elections and how it can work in the future / Michael G. Miller. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801452277 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Campaign funds—United States. 2. Political campaigns—United States. 3. Elections—United States. 4. United States—Politics and government—21st century. I. Title. JK1991.M65 2014 324.7′8—dc23 2013021192

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Why Public Funding?

Contents

2. Strategic Candidates and Public Funding

3. Campaign Time

4. Voting Behavior

5. Candidate Quality

6. Ideology and Partisan Participation

7. Clean Elections at the Supreme Court

Conclusion: Reform in the Future

Appendix 1. Description of Data Sources

Appendix 2. Survey Instrument

1 12 29 46 64 80 108 124 142

155 159

v i i i C o n t e n t s

Appendix 3. Methods Notes Bibliography Index

163 181 185 195

Acknowledgments

This book began as a research project in the Department of Govern ment at Cornell University, and though I swore to never think about it again when I ﬁnished, here we are. I am extremely pleased that the book has returned “home” to Cornell University Press for its publication, since the Cornell community was so important to its development. Sufﬁce it to say that this book was a long time in the making, and I have accordingly incurred a long list of people who were integral in producing it. Nonethe less, it goes without saying that while the people named below made the project possible, the responsibility for all errors or omissions, should they present themselves herein, rests solely with me. I know that it is customary for reasons of convention or style to ac knowledge one’s professional debts ﬁrst and familial debts second, but I cannot in good conscience follow that template. I went to graduate school at the urging of my best friend and spouse, Laura Miller, who recognized that the academic life was the only one that would give me a sense of proper place. Without her constant support and willingness to uproot our family

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