Political giving
Subtitle: making sense of individual campaign contributions
By: Bertram N. Johnson
Publisher: FirstForumPress, onc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781935049555
Subjects: Campaign funds; Elections
Description: "Why do some 30 million people in the United States give money to political candidates and causes--even though most individual contributions are irrational from the perspective of a strict cost-benefit analysis? How do campaign fundraisers tap into potential donors' motivations? Exploring three decades of historical data and also drawing extensively on the insights of contemporary campaign directors and consultants, Bertram Johnson makes sense of why people give and considers what this means for the campaign finance system, and the quality of representation, in the United States."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.