Ep. 70: What Makes a Fair Election? (with Allen Dickerson)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 23/02/2015

Allen Dickerson joins us to talk about First Amendment rights when it comes to funding campaigns. What does it mean to have an undue influence on an election?

Modern campaign finance laws are incredibly opaque and labyrinthine. Allen Dickerson joins us this week to help make sense of them.

What makes a fair election? Equal money? Equal time? How do PACs and Super PACs work? What's a "dark money" group? How does the current campaign finance system hurt the little guy more than the established campaigner?

Show Notes and Further Reading

John Samples, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform (book)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fallacy-Campaign-Finance-Reform/dp/0226734501

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