Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

by Martin H. Redish

Book Overview

Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The nation's primary sources of communication, the argument goes, are increasingly controlled by vast corporate empires whose primary, or even exclusive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775381
• ISBN13: 9780814775387
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"