{"id":338,"date":"2016-05-06T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:09:24","slug":"the-deregulatory-moment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/books\/the-deregulatory-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Campaign Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2016\/05\/Dereg_Cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-349\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2016\/05\/Dereg_Cover-200x300.png\" alt=\"Dereg_Cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2016\/05\/Dereg_Cover-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2016\/05\/Dereg_Cover.png 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>My edited volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/8083157\/deregulatory_moment\"><em>The Deregulatory Moment?&nbsp; A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws <\/em><\/a>was published in early 2016 by the University of Michigan Press.&nbsp; The main question of the book is whether the United States is unique in its movement away from government regulation of campaign finance.&nbsp; The book draws upon papers presented at a conference I organized in 2013 in Remich, Luxembourg, under the auspices of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/offices\/leir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry J. Leir Center<\/a>.&nbsp; The conference brought together North American and European campaign finance scholars to evaluate changes over the past decade in the campaign finance systems of Western democracies.&nbsp; Abstracts and other materials from the conference are available <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.clarku.edu\/leir\/july2013\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2014\/04\/DSCF2031.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2014\/04\/DSCF2031.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"279\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"landingImage\" class=\"a-dynamic-image a-stretch-vertical alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL.jpg\" alt=\"Campaign Finance-The Problems and Consequences of Reform\" width=\"209\" height=\"314\" data-old-hires=\"\" data-a-image-name=\"landingImage\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL._SY342_.jpg&quot;:[342,228],&quot;https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL._SY385_.jpg&quot;:[385,256],&quot;https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL._SY466_.jpg&quot;:[466,310],&quot;https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL.jpg&quot;:[500,333],&quot;https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512qSJVjsiL._SY425_.jpg&quot;:[425,283]}\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in the edited volume I put together for the Open Society Institute on comparative campaign finance; the publisher\u2019s page for that book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1617700193\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My edited volume The Deregulatory Moment?&nbsp; A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws was published in early 2016 by the University of Michigan Press.&nbsp; The main question of the book is whether the United States is unique in its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/books\/the-deregulatory-moment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}