Curbing Campaign Cash by Paul Baker

Curbing Campaign Cash by Paul Baker

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Summary

Examines this case study of state and local campaign spending to describe how politicians found their footing in an environment created by progressive reform and invented modern campaigns. Through the seminal election of 1918, she pries apart two persistent strains in American political culture: suspicion of money in politics and suspicion of politics itself.

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Curbing Campaign Cash by Paul Baker

Examines this case study of state and local campaign spending to describe how politicians found their footing in an environment created by progressive reform and invented modern campaigns. Through the seminal election of 1918, she pries apart two persistent strains in American political culture: suspicion of money in politics and suspicion of politics itself.
Paula Baker is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, USA, author of The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender and Politics in Rural New York, 1870–1930, and editor of Campaign Finance in Historical Perspective.
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ISBN 13 9780700618637
ISBN 10 0700618635
Title Curbing Campaign Cash
Author Paul Baker
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University Press of Kansas
Year published 2012-10-24
Number of pages 208
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