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Campaign finance : abuses and reforms
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This program, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hedrick Smith, provides an overview of Clinton-era campaign finance reform: the failed initiatives of the post-Watergate era, soft money scanda...
This program, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hedrick Smith, provides an overview of Clinton-era campaign finance reform: the failed initiatives of the post-Watergate era, soft money scandals, and models for reform. Smith interviews John McCain, Bill Bradley, and Jack Kemp to determine how soft money corrupted the political process. The initial segment describes the campaign finance system in use during the 1990s-itself the result of reforms instituted after Watergate-and explains how that system broke down. A second segment originates in Florida's sugarcane fields and demonstrates how well-targeted campaign donations helped win passage of legislation that favored the sugar industry. A final segment, set in Maine, illustrates how a public-funding bill impacted the electoral process and considers the lessons the nation might learn from it.
Details
- Creator
- Hedrick Smith Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1997
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (49 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780736579100
- OCLC
- ocn707965459
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Is Campaign Financing Out of Control? (3:45) -- Supreme Court Removes Limits (2:50) -- Soft Money and Advocacy Ads (3:44) -- Campaign Fund Violations Investigated (3:13) -- Partisan Finger-Pointing in Ads (1:50) -- Big Business: Ticket to Legislature (2:21) -- Florida Sugar and the Government (2:58) -- Farm Money in the Senate (4:00) -- Miller Takes on the Sugar Industry (3:31) -- Sugar Industry Turns on Miller (3:10) -- Maine Seeks Campaign Reform (3:39) -- Mainers Lobby for Clean Elections (3:38) -- Maine Passes the Reform Bill (3:27) -- Congress Won't Limit Campaign Funds (2:59) -- Campaign Reform an Uphill Battle (1:17)