Description: The Campaign Finance Cases offers a much-needed, balanced account of how issues critical to American democracy figure in the adjudication of campaign finance law.
Brief description: Melvin I. Urofsky is professor of law and public policy and professor emeritus of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today and coauthor of New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press, among many other volumes.
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"Thoroughly researched, analytically sound, and clearly written, Urofsky's The Campaign Finance Cases takes a very difficult subject and opens it up to the general reader. It makes clear not only why campaign finance reforms matter, but why they are so hard to get right and why the Supreme Court is constantly having to rule on these matters. I look forward to using this book the next time I teach voting and elections to my students."--Charles L. Zelden, author of Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy, Third Expanded Edition
"A masterful history of the Supreme Court's decades-long struggle to balance the integrity of elections with free speech in campaign finance cases. Urofsky upends numerous myths and misconceptions about the Court while showing how, in the era of Citizens United, campaign finance laws are increasingly likely to be struck down."--Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights