caa a22 4500 388026774 CHVBK 20180307124939.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/420425 doi S1049096500048198 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/420425 Dead Law: The Federal Election Finance Regulations, 1974-1996 [Elektronische Daten] 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. Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998 Wilcox Clyde Georgetown University Joe Wesley Georgetown University PS: Political Science & Politics Cambridge University Press 31/1(1998-03), 14-17 1049-0965 31:1<14 1998 31 PSC https://doi.org/10.2307/420425 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/420425 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilcox Clyde Georgetown University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Joe Wesley Georgetown University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- PS: Political Science & Politics Cambridge University Press 31/1(1998-03), 14-17 1049-0965 31:1<14 1998 31 PSC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge