Political Giving : : Making Sense of Individual Campaign Contributions / / Bertram N. Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, Bertram N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1. The Puzzle of Individual Giving --; 2. Competing Theories of Individual Participation --; 3. The History of U.S. Campaign Finance --; 4. How Modern Campaigns Appeal to Individual Contributors --; 5. How Members of Congress Build Their Fundraising Coalitions --; 6. What Survey Data Tells Us About Contributors --; 7. Why Do People Give? --; 8. Whither the Campaign Finance System? --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626374164; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626374164
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bertram N. Johnson.

Why do some 30 million people in the United States give money to political candidates and causes—even though most individual contributions are irrational from the perspective of a strict cost-benefit analysis? How do campaign fundraisers tap into potential donors' motivations? Exploring three decades of historical data and also drawing extensively on the insights of contemporary campaign directors and consultants, Bertram Johnson makes sense of why people give and considers what this means for the campaign finance system, and the quality of representation, in the United States.