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Dead Law: The Federal Election Finance Regulations, 1974–1996

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Clyde Wilcox  and
Wesley Joe
Clyde Wilcox
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
Wesley Joe
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
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In the aftermath of the 1996 election campaigns, scholars, journalists, policymakers, and campaign finance professionals alike declared the House election financing system “broken” and “out of control.” That cycle saw party officials raising unprecedented amounts of “soft money” and directing it into specific federal campaigns. Coalitions of interest groups spent tens of millions of dollars attacking or defending candidates in “issue advocacy” campaigns, and disclosed neither their spending nor the sources of their funds to the Federal Election Commission. Groups like the Christian Coalition distributed tens of millions of “non-partisan” voter guides with thinly-disguised endorsements of candidates, again without disclosing their activity.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 31 , Issue 1: 30th Anniversary Issue , March 1998 , pp. 14 - 17
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998

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