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Publication Date: January 1990
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Andrew J. Cowin
Research Area: Politics
Keywords: Government reform
Type: Report
Abstract:
Current U.S. election law needs to be changed. The rules favor incumbents and such contributors as union and corporate PACs, while discriminating against challengers and individual citizens who wish to participate. Many of these shortcomings are the result of “reforms†passed in 1974. Now “reformers†again are proposing changes that would increase government control, further squeeze out the citizen, and fail to address the problems highlighted in the Supreme Court’s Beck decision.