Candidates and Campaigns: Campaign Finance: Laws and Loopholes
The excessive amounts of money invested in political campaigns has resulted in demands for reform. Individual and party contributions to campaigns are limited by law. These hard money contributions can be spent any way t..
Candidates and Campaigns: Campaigns and the Media
In presidential campaigns, media consumes over half the dollars a presidential candidate spends. Increasingly, candidates for public office rely on television ads to get their message out. Some experts decry the fact tha..
Candidates and Campaigns: Contrast Between Early Congressmen and Today's Legislators
We need politicians; it is the way our democracy works. At the beginning of the republic people went to Congress with the idea of serving one term and then going home. This self-imposed term limit may seem admirable, but..
Candidates and Campaigns: Costs of Campaigning, The
Campaigning is expensive, and the costs keep rising. Only people who have their own money or can put together an alliance of interests can finance a campaign. The constant need to raise campaign funds corrodes the proces..
Candidates and Campaigns: Effect of Contributions on a Politician's Vote, The
Serious academic studies of the effects of campaign contributions on an elected official's behavior in Congress find very little relationship. What contributions do buy is access to politicians, a valuable commodity cons..
Candidates and Campaigns: Mass-Marketing of Politics
In the past, party rallies and door-to-door canvassing could be handled by volunteers. Today's media-based campaigns need paid specialists, another reason today's campaigns are so expensive. Karen Paget talks about her w..
Candidates and Campaigns: Paths to Political Office
There are two paths to public office, coming up through the party ranks or becoming an entrepreneur and raising campaign funds yourself. One of the most important assets in electoral politics is positive name recognition..
Candidates and Campaigns: Slow Pace of Campaign Reform, The
The strategies that go into a successful campaign are well documented, but it is still hard for candidates to achieve the right combination and emerge the winner. Some change in the approach to political campaigns seems ..
Cannabis: satanic herb or healing potion?
As has occurred with most drugs, the neurological effects of cannabis have only recently been fully identified and understood. This program presents some of the latest findings, including new investigations into the clin..
Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle
Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle is a tragicomic tale of the 10-year battle over America's largest proposed clean energy project - and a microcosm of the obstacles the country faces in the larger struggle to move to..