The Public Interest

Campaign financing and the “special interests”

Michael J. Malbin

Summer 1979

CAMPAIGN finance is one of those rapidly changing practical fields in which generalizations mislead more often than they help. In my years of following the subject, however, I think I have managed to find one useful rule of thumb.  Whenever everyone seems to agree on anything, one should become suspicious.

 

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