Leveling the playing field with public campaign financing systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Michael McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Playing Field ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
Campaign Financing

Leveling the Playing Field? The Role of Public Campaign Funding in Elections

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman Klumpp ◽  
Hugo M. Mialon ◽  
Michael A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Playing Field ◽  
Public Campaign

Obama 2.0

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Baker
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Secret Ballot ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Small Donors ◽  
Campaign Financing

This chapter takes a critical look at the internet fundraising techniques the Obama campaign perfected and argues that such techniques, combined with federal campaign contribution reporting requirements, pose an important challenge to political values that Americans have long embraced. Not only do the stunning amounts raised render obsolete the nation's four-decades-old system of public campaign financing; the fact that much of this money was raised from a large number of small donors, and that these donors can be readily identified in online campaign finance reports, challenges one of the most important innovations in the electoral process of the late nineteenth century, the secret ballot.

Public Campaign Financing, Candidate Socioeconomic Diversity, and Representational Inequality at the U.S. State Level: Evidence from Connecticut

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-323
Author(s):  
Mitchell Kilborn
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Low Ses ◽  
Public Financing ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Socioeconomic Diversity ◽  
Paired Control ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Campaign Financing

Conventional wisdom holds that public campaign financing can diversify the socioeconomic makeup of candidate pools and, therefore, of U.S. elected officials, which could make U.S. public policy more responsive to lower socioeconomic status (SES) citizens. I argue that in addition to the absence of a positive relationship between public financing and candidate socioeconomic diversity, public financing, depending on the program design, may, in fact, reduce candidate socioeconomic diversity. Using occupational data on state legislative candidates in public financing state Connecticut and two paired control states to execute a difference in difference analysis, I demonstrate that when public financing is available, fewer low SES candidates run for state legislative office, and those who do run are not more likely to win and are less likely to utilize public financing.

Esotericism and the “Coded Word” in Mormonism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Clyde Forsberg Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
New Religion

In the history of American popular religion, the Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, have undergone a series of paradigmatic shifts in order to join the Christian mainstream, abandoning such controversial core doctrines and institutions as polygamy and the political kingdom of God. Mormon historians have played an important role in this metamorphosis, employing a version (if not perversion) of the Church-Sect Dichotomy to change the past in order to control the future, arguing, in effect, that founder Joseph Smith Jr’s erstwhile magical beliefs and practices gave way to a more “mature” and bible-based self-understanding which is then said to best describe the religion that he founded in 1830. However, an “esoteric approach” as Faivre and Hanegraaff understand the term has much to offer the study of Mormonism as an old, new religion and the basis for a more even methodological playing field and new interpretation of Mormonism as equally magical (Masonic) and biblical (Evangelical) despite appearances. This article will focus on early Mormonism’s fascination with and employment of ciphers, or “the coded word,” essential to such foundation texts as the Book of Mormon and “Book of Abraham,” as well as the somewhat contradictory, albeit colonial understanding of African character and destiny in these two hermetic works of divine inspiration and social commentary in the Latter-day Saint canonical tradition.

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