Money In the House

Money in the House provides a pompelling look at how the drive to raise campaign money has come to dominate congressional party politics. Currinder examines the rise of member-to-member and member-to-party giving as part of a broader process that encourages ambitious House members to compete for power by raising money for the party and its candidates.

Marian Currinder

* Introduction * Chapter 1 - Campaign Funds and Congressional Party Politics: An Overview. * Chapter 2 - Pursuing Ambition in a Congressional Parties Framework * Chapter 3 - The 1970s Reform Era: The Money Chase Begins * Chapter 4 - The 1980s: New Directions in Campaign Funding * Chapter 5 - A Republican Revolution in Politics and Money: The Gingrich Era * Chapter 6 - Paying to Play: Redistributing Money in the Post-Gingrich Era * Chapter 7 - Campaign Funds and the New Democratic Majority * Epilogue * Bibliography