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Big Government Causes Big Campaign Spending.(Review)
John R. Lott, Jr., "A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures Are Increasing: The Government Is Getting Bigger" in The Journal of Law & Economics (October 2000), University of Chicago Press, Box 37005, Chicago, Illinois 60637.
Yale Law School scholar Lott explains why political campaigns are so expensive: "As government has more favors to grant" he writes, "the efforts spent to obtain these favors should increase."
Lott collected campaign spending ...
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