Basham, Patrick. “This is Reform? Predicting the Impact of The New Campaign Finance Regulations.” CATO Institute Briefing Papers. 2002. Offers a critique of political campaign reform laws.
De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. 2000. Argues that the single greatest source of failure in the Third [...]
Determine if you live in a state that holds referendums on initiatives. If so, collect, catalog, and analyze the voter guides for all referendums over the past three years to determine how much money was spent in favor of and in opposition to each initiative. Chart how often the result of the vote favored the [...]
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1. To what extent does money influence the political process?
2. How have technological innovations produced both paths and roadblocks to power?
3. How do grassroots efforts around the globe, such as boycotts, provide access to power?
4. Historically, what is the correlation between countries that possess well-defined property rights and wealth and power?
5. Do wealthy people have a greater right to govern [...]
