Chapter 3: Campaign Finance Debates and Strategies
In a post-presentation Q&A, Hoover Institution senior fellow, Brandice Canes-Wrone, answers questions from the Policy Bootcamp students. She provides the students with insight into issues such as spending caps, the significance of social media’s role for less-funded candidates, and how, even though party spending and donor contributions tend to weed out more ideological candidates in favor of moderates, the perception that big money in politics is a corruptive force still persists and undermines election legitimacy.
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Read Brandice Canes-Wrone’s book “Who Leads Whom?” Available here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/….
Listen to “Grading Election Integrity,” with Benjamin Ginsberg and Bill Whalen on Saints, Sinners & Salvageables. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/gradi….
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