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Professor Ansolabehere provides an overview of the current state of campaign finance laws and analyses the impact of funds spent on various forms of media. He explains the basic premise that the US Supreme Court has set forth that “speech is money” and discusses the political implications of this equation.Related Videos
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About the Speaker
Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science, MIT
Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityStephen Ansolabehere studies elections, democracy, and the mass media. He is coauthor (with Shanto Iyengar) of The Media Game (Macmillan, 1993) and of Going Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the American Electorate (The Free Press, 1996). Ansolabehere is also a member of the Cal Tech/MIT Voting Project. which was established in 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 US Presidential election.
Ansolabehere received a B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. - About the Host
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Political Advertising, Free Speech and the Problem of Campaign Reform
- Stephen Ansolabehere
- June 7, 2003
- Running Time: 33:50
