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From: The American Enterprise
Date: 20011001
Author:Wooster, Martin Morse

Keep Campaign Donors Anonymous? Ian Ayres, "Should Campaign Reformers Be Identified?" in Regulation (Summer 2001), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001.

Campaign finance reformers often argue that campaign contributions should be made public, so that voters can observe whether donors influence politicians' votes. But Yale Law School professor Ayres suggests that a better proposal would be to make all campaign contributions anonymous.

Under Ayres's proposal, contributions would be sent to a blind trust administered by a bank, which would ...

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