Campaign Finance Reform
The Unfinished Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9752487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | FRED WERTHEIMER (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 486 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-102 |
| Publication date | 1986-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716286486001007 |
| OpenAlex | W1996394222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
In 1974, following the Watergate scandal, Congress enacted major campaign finance reform legislation. The legislation created a revolutionary new public financing system for our presidential campaigns, but it left congressional campaigns to be financed totally by private money. The presidential public financing system has worked well. Despite some incremental problems, the system has accomplished its basic goal of allowing individuals to run for the presidency without becoming dependent on their financial backers. The system for financing congressional campaigns, on the other hand, is out of control and in need of fundamental reform. The inappropriate role of special interest political action committees (PACs) in influencing congressional elections and congressional decisions is the single biggest problem facing the political process. Congress needs to complete the unfinished campaign finance reform agenda of the 1970s by enacting public financing for congressional campaigns and establishing new restrictions on the total amount that PACs may give to a congressional candidate
Campaign finance · Control (management · Economics · Legislation · Management · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential campaign · Presidential system · Public finance · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Finance · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2013 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |