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Bankrupting Democracy : Campaign Spending in a Marketplace of Ideas, Hardcover by Katz, Nathan, ISBN 0700641246, ISBN-13 9780700641246, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A deeply researched investigation that shows how the long-held ideas protecting unlimited campaign spending as free speech that once served the needs of political candidates and voters are now shaped to serve the desires of interest groups, threatening the future of American democracy. In the 2010 Citizens United decision, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that the precedent they were overturning “interferes with the 'open marketplace’ of ideas protected by the First Amendment.” For the majority who ruled in this case, money was in some sense the equivalent of speech, meaning that spending should be allowed under the guise of a marketplace of ideas. But what does this actually mean? And what are the consequences? Both critics and advocates of this marketplace of ideas often treat it as an abstract principle; one that focuses on competition among different voices that allows for the most popular, and therefore best, ideas to gain prominence. But the marketplace of ideas is not a single tool. There are multiple mechanisms at play, all of which influence the rules and regulations behind this competition. Therefore, the marketplace of ideas should be understood not as a single idea but as a collection of smaller norms that build a regulatory, market-like system. Bankrupting Democracy traces the de

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Year: 2026
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780700641246
• Condition: Fine

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