Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Author’s Note xi List of Acronyms xiii Introduction: Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform—A Natural Experiment 1 Part I | The Roots of Reform 1 | Interest Group Studies in Canada and the United States 25 2 | Interest Group Politics of the 1990s and the Campaign Finance Reform Movement 53 3 | Campaign Finance Reform 71 Part II | Consequences of Reform 4 | Measuring the Effects of Reform 85 5 | The American Response 102 6 | The Canadian Response 149 7 | Lessons 174 8 | Reform Goals and Values 193 Appendix: A Primer on Brokerage Parties 213 Notes 217 List of Interviews 225 Bibliography 227 Index 243 ...