Interest groups and campaign finance reform in the United States and Canada

Introduction : interest groups and campaign finance reform

a natural experiment

Part I : the roots of reform

Interest group studies in Canada and the United States

Interest group politics of the 1990s and the campaign finance reform movement

Campaign finance reform

Part II : consequences of reform

Measuring the effects of reform

The American response

The Canadian response

Lessons

Reform goals and values

Appendix : a primer on brokerage parties.