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Money Talks : Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy / Martin H. Redish.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814775387
  • 9780814776773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.44/3/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • JK1991 .R423 2001eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Intersection between Free Speech and Economic Power -- 2. Commercial Speech and Democratic Values -- 3. Corporate Speech and the Theory of Free Expression -- 4. Free Speech and the Flawed Postulates of Campaign Finance Regulation -- 5. The Right of Expressive Access, Redistributive Values, and the Democratic Dilemma -- 6. Government Subsidies and Free Expression -- 7. Conclusion: Free Expression and the Sound of Money -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The nation's primary sources of communication, the argument goes, are increasingly controlled by vast corporate empires whose primary, or even exclusive motive is the maximization of profit. And these conglomerates should simply not be granted the same constitutional protection as, say, an individual protester. And yet neither the expenditure of money for expressive purposes nor an underlying motive of profit maximization detracts from the values fostered by such activity, claims Martin H. Redish. In fact, given the modern economic realities that dictate that effective expression virtually requires the expenditure of capital, any restriction of such capital for expressive purposes will necessarily reduce the sum total of available expression. Further, Redish here illustrates, the underlying motive of those who wish to restrict corporate expression is disagreement with the nature of the views they express. Confronting head-on one of the sacred cows of American reformist politics, Martin H. Redish here once again lives up to his reputation as one of America's most original and counterintuitive legal minds.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Intersection between Free Speech and Economic Power -- 2. Commercial Speech and Democratic Values -- 3. Corporate Speech and the Theory of Free Expression -- 4. Free Speech and the Flawed Postulates of Campaign Finance Regulation -- 5. The Right of Expressive Access, Redistributive Values, and the Democratic Dilemma -- 6. Government Subsidies and Free Expression -- 7. Conclusion: Free Expression and the Sound of Money -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The nation's primary sources of communication, the argument goes, are increasingly controlled by vast corporate empires whose primary, or even exclusive motive is the maximization of profit. And these conglomerates should simply not be granted the same constitutional protection as, say, an individual protester. And yet neither the expenditure of money for expressive purposes nor an underlying motive of profit maximization detracts from the values fostered by such activity, claims Martin H. Redish. In fact, given the modern economic realities that dictate that effective expression virtually requires the expenditure of capital, any restriction of such capital for expressive purposes will necessarily reduce the sum total of available expression. Further, Redish here illustrates, the underlying motive of those who wish to restrict corporate expression is disagreement with the nature of the views they express. Confronting head-on one of the sacred cows of American reformist politics, Martin H. Redish here once again lives up to his reputation as one of America's most original and counterintuitive legal minds.

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In English.

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