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Campaign finance reform: Realizing or undermining political equality in America.

机译：竞选资金改革：在美国实现或破坏政治平等。

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The subject of my dissertation is the relationship between political liberty and political equality in American politics. The point of departure is the contemporary debate over campaign finance reform. Arguably the most prominent argument used to justify campaign finance reform today is the contention that protecting political equality requires the regulation or restriction of political liberty. Working from a conception of democracy that requires an equality of influence among its citizens, many politicians, political scientists, political theorists, and legal scholars contend that a government that protects the individual's right to speak and write free from government restraint simply enables individuals with superior electorally-valuable resources to ‘drown out’ the voice of those lacking comparable resources. If the equality principle is to be secured, and the government's responsiveness to all the people restored, accordingly, government must regulate individual political liberty in whatever ways are necessary to promote a greater equality of influence.;The purpose of the dissertation is to trace the origins of the perceived opposition between the requirements of political equality and political liberty. In the first three chapters, I demonstrate that this opposition is neither inherent in the theoretical understanding of the American founding, nor in the founding generation's (or their early nineteenth century descendents), assessment of the effects of protecting political liberty in practice. On the contrary, I explain why those who were most eager to preserve the people's influence over government believed the protection of political liberty was so vital. In the fourth chapter, I trace the roots of the opposition to the progressive rejection of the Founders' theory of government in favor of a superficially similar but fundamentally different conception of democracy, as well as their reassessment of the effects of protecting political liberty in practice. Finally, in the fifth chapter, I show how the new understanding of equality derived from the progressive conception of government has led to the democratization of political liberty, individually and negatively understood, in the area of campaign finance.
机译：本文的主题是美国政治中的政治自由与政治平等之间的关系。出发点是当代有关竞选财务改革的辩论。可以说，当今用来证明竞选资金改革合理性的最著名论据是关于保护政治平等需要对政治自由进行管制或限制的争论。从要求公民之间具有平等影响力的民主观念出发，许多政治家，政治学家，政治理论家和法律学者都认为，保护个人的言论和写作权不受政府束缚的政府只会使具有高尚才能的个人具有选举价值的资源，以“淹没”那些缺乏可比资源的人的声音。如果要确保平等原则，并恢复政府对全体人民的反应，那么，政府必须以任何必要的方式来规范个人的政治自由，以促进更大的影响力平等。政治平等和政治自由的要求之间被认为是对立的起源。在前三章中，我证明了这种反对既不是对美国建国的理论理解所固有的，也不是对建国一代（或其19世纪初的后代）评估在实践中保护政治自由的影响所固有的。相反，我解释了为什么那些最渴望保留人民对政府的影响的人认为保护政治自由如此重要。在第四章中，我追溯了反对派的根源，这些反对派逐渐反对创始人的政府理论，以支持表面上相似但根本不同的民主概念，以及他们在实践中对保护政治自由的效果的重新评估。 。最后，在第五章中，我展示了从渐进的政府构想中产生的对平等的新理解如何导致竞选资金领域的政治自由民主化，无论是个别的还是负面的理解。

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    Jones, Tiffany R.;

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    University of California, Davis.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Davis.;
  • 学科 Political Science General.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 167 p.
  • 总页数 167
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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