| Description |
1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- About the Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Financing of the 2020 Election: Change and Continuity -- Context of the 2020 Election -- Overview: Federal Campaign Expenditures in 2020 Election -- Candidate Committees -- Joint Fund-Raising Committees -- Party Committees -- Traditional PACs -- Hybrid and Super PACs -- Additional Independent Spenders -- Previewing the Substantive Chapters -- A Sixty-Year Anniversary -- Notes |
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Chapter 2: The Regulatory Environment of the 2020 Election -- Why Campaign Finance Policy Matters -- Activities and Entities Regulated under Campaign Finance Policy -- Entities That Regulate: Congress -- Entities That Regulate: Federal Agencies -- The Constitution and Major Statutes Affecting Campaign Finance -- Early Foundations of Federal Campaign Finance Policy -- The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and Buckley v. Valeo -- The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and McConnell v. FEC -- Citizens United and Implications for the Regulatory Environment |
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Recent Policy Activity and the 2020 Regulatory Environment -- Ongoing Implications from Changes in Party Financing and Presidential Public Funds -- Unique Factors Shaping the 2020 Regulatory Environment: COVID and Foreign Interference -- Ongoing Debate over Transparency in Disclosures and Disclaimers -- Discussion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Financing the 2020 Presidential Elections -- Rules, Rivals, and Resources -- Rules -- Rivals -- Resources -- Presidential PCC Net Receipts and Net Disbursements in 2020 -- Democratic Candidates -- Republican Candidate |
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The Structure of Congressional Campaign Finance -- Small Donations in 2020 -- Who Gives to Whom? -- Spending by Incumbents Versus Challengers -- A Note on 2021 and Beyond -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Party Money in the 2020 Election -- Major Party Finances in a Historic Election -- Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) -- Trump Impeachment 2019-2020 -- Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) -- U.S. Senate Runoff Elections in Georgia -- Party Fund-Raising in 2020 -- Party Fund-Raising and Joint Fund-Raising Committees (JFCs) -- Party Receipts from Transfers |
| Summary |
The 2020 election cycle saw not only a polarizing president run for re-election amidst a global pandemic, but also record levels of spending on campaigns for the White House and for Congress. In this volume, experts examine a wide range of topics about the financing of campaigns in 2020 and place the election in broader historical context |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Sources of Presidential PCC Receipts in 2020 -- Democratic Candidates -- Republican Candidate -- Noncandidate and Party Committee Spending in 2020 -- Candidates' Organizational Networks in 2020 -- The Dynamics of the Presidential Campaign in 2020 -- The Democratic Nomination Campaign -- The Postprimary Campaign -- The Bridge Period -- Financing the National Conventions -- The General Election Campaign -- Conclusion and Continuance -- Postelection Fund-Raising -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Financing the 2020 Congressional Elections -- The Context of the 2020 Congressional Elections |
| Notes |
Special Party Accounts |
| Subject |
United States. Congress -- Elections -- 2020
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Campaign funds -- United States -- History
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Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Green, John C
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| ISBN |
9780815739807 |
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081573980X |
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