Financing the 2000 Election

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Since the 1960 national election the non-partisan Citizens' Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance. For the 2000 edition, CRF and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University assembled leading political science scholars to analyse this historic election season, when campaign finance was critically important. In setting forth the contours of American political finance, it should provide a useful resource for students of elections, reformers, journalists and interested citizens.

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"In combing each chapter, I felt like I was reading the next installment of a serial novel, one in which I abhor the plot, but the way the message is crafted and conveyed is too important and interesting to put down.This volume is thorough and eloquently documents the latest escalation of the current arms race in campaign finance. For students, journalists, pundits, and practitioners, and for those citizens and reformers who are not faint of hear, this book will be a welcome read." Eric Prier, Florida Atlantic University, White House Studies, 11/1/2003

"This book is important for several reasons.... The final two chapters, on judicial elections and on warnings to 'reformers', seem to me the strongest in the work, matching theoretical insight and a breadth of unusual and informative sources of data." Michael C. Munger, Duke University, Political Studies Review, 1/1/2004

Author Bio

David B. Magleby is dean of the School of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University, where he is also a professor of political science. He is the editor of Financing the 2000 Election (Brookings 2002), and coauthor of Government by the People, which is now in its twenty-first edition.