Monthly topic

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Hey, folks! How's summer going? Feeling the heat yet? Aaanyway, here's what you guys chose to be the monthly topic for July:

Money and Ethics In Politics

Tricky, isn't it?



Some details on the topic

- Grassroots vs astroturfing
- Dark money
- Election campaigning
- Political corruption: causes, means, and responses
- Plutocratic finance, party subsidies and public subsidies
- The marriage between big business and big politics
- Unions, and legislative bargaining
- Special interests and lobbying
- Single issue vs multiple issue lobbying
- Campaign finance, PACs, Super PACs
- Campaign finance laws, campaign reform, Citizens United
- Disclosure and domestic regulations
- Foreign lobbying and neo-colonialism
- Conspiracy theories: banks, politicians, and the Federal Reserve
- Examples of political finance legislation from around the world
- Transparency in election campaign
- The money trail: big money donors
- Campaign finance in the US
- Publicly funded elections
- Clean elections
- Money and speech in politics
- The elephant in the room: super-PACs
- Ethics in journalism


And here's the poll for August:

[Poll #2048577]

(Feel free to suggest more).