Essays on Campaign Finance

The United States campaign funding is depicted by various instances of unfair practices because the rich get leverage since they can convince the mass in their campaigns. It is essential to note that political campaigns always involve the use of significant resources. Some of the expenditures incurred in a political campaign include the renting of conference halls, transportation, paying the campaigners, printing, appearances, and even soft finances. It would rather seem impractical to expect that funding offered by the federal government would meet up all those costs (Hames, & Ekern, 297). State funding would also seem to favor a particular ...

Political socialization is a development process where individuals acquire political behavior and orientation in which acceptable norms of a political system is passed on from one generation to another. Political opinion of every individual is influenced by social factors such as religion, race and ethnicity, media, peers and family. These factors affect their political views throughout their lives.

Role of Religion in Political Socialization

Throughout the history, religion has been used by leaders as a projection for political ambition. This is based on the principle that a leader should set as a good example and behave in a way his people expect of him by following a strict pattern of moral and ...

Introduction

Republicanism remains America’s ideology to date. USA is a democratic country whose sovereignty is exercised through two levels of governments- the federal government and the state government (Jillson 14). The nation as endeavored to regulate the influence of money in politics and election outcome through federal provisions and state legislations. However the influence of money in voting habit cannot be actively changed unless spending by candidates and political parties is regulated. Money cannot equal a vote. With inadequate public funding, parties(s) and individual candidates who cannot access other sources of funding may not reach out the voter- reducing their ...

The role of special interest groups in American politics has been highly contentious. The national interest is a amalgam of varying private interests all vying for attention on the national stage. Instead of encouraging citizen involvement, special interest groups have magnified the fissures of the American political system. In this paper, I will discuss the role that special interest group play in public policy, examine the campaign reform movement and the pro’s and con’s. Interest groups were a concern that the Founding Fathers had since the founding of our nation. Modern day citizens hold the sentiment that democracy ...

Campaign finance is used about the funds that are raised during campaigns to promote the activities of political parties, candidates or to support policies during referendums, elections or initiatives. Political campaigns involve very much expenditure that include the cost of traveling for staff and candidates, consulting, direct costs of communicating with the voters, campaign logistics, publicity and production of campaign materials. Campaign financing is different depending on the country. In the Great Britain, for example, television advertising is sponsored freely for all parties campaigning and can only be limited by law, whereas, in the United States of America, television ...

Introduction

Elections in United States of America are very expensive affairs and such campaigns are mandatory in course of raise funding. Every presidential candidate has to campaign hard for fund raising and it has been now a custom in America for presidential candidates to raise funds for their elections. This paper intends to discuss presidential campaign finance for the presidential election of the year 2012. Presidential election of year 2012 made new records in financial campaigns. In final weeks of fundraising, the figure crossed $2 billion mark and this figure made this election most expensive in the history of American ...

And the Media

Political campaigns, particularly at the federal level require a great deal of money to be executed effectively and this can be seen throughout the political history of the United States. Political financing of campaigns has been viewed as a somewhat necessary evil that is a critical factor in ensuring the success of a particular candidate and political donations are considered to be a means through which individuals and organizations can support their chosen candidate in accordance with the democratic system. However, the undue advantage that a candidate may derive from exorbitant contributions from individual entities has been recognized by various institutions throughout the history of ...