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Raymond La Raja

Raymond La Raja is associate dean at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  He is coauthor of Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail (University of Michigan Press, 2015). icon

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Money Is the Gatekeeper of Politics

By Raymond La Raja

Rather than taking money out of politics, we should inject more money into politics: but money in the service of the public good.

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