Campaign Finance and Electoral Competition : The New World of Outside Money (Paperback)

Part I: How did we get here? 1. Big Money Finds a Way; 2. Attempts to Control Big Money and Protect the First Amendment; 3. A Theory of Group Electoral Influence and Quality Subsidy Provision; Part II: Analyzing SuperPACs and the Quality Subsidy 4. Who are the SuperPACs and what did they do in 2012?; 5. Ideologues, Investors and Opportunists: Network Analysis of SuperPACs; 6. Candidate-Making & Spoilers: the Quality Subsidy Argument; Part III: Future Directions 7. SuperPACs, NonProfits, and Reform; 8. Conclusion ? Wither Political Parties?; Appendix: A Brief Introduction to Social Network Analysis