Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

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

Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

by Martin H. Redish

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814769188
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 334
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

The author of numerous books and for a quarter century one of the country's most provocative commentators on free speech issues, Martin H. Redish is the Louis and Harriet Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern University School of Law.

Table of Contents

Prefaceix
1Introduction: The Intersection between Free Speech and Economic Power1
2Commercial Speech and Democratic Values14
3Corporate Speech and the Theory of Free Expression63
4Free Speech and the Flawed Postulates of Campaign Finance Regulation115
5The Right of Expressive Access, Redistributive Values, and the Democratic Dilemma147
6Government Subsidies and Free Expression196
7Conclusion: Free Expression and the Sound of Money232
Notes237
Index315
About the Author319
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