The role of money in the U.S. electoral process has become more and more controversial in recent years. Following the Buckley ruling and other legislation in 1996, candidates and political parties are free to raise virtually unlimited ?soft? money, making money perhaps the most significant factor in a campaign's success. In Moey Rules, Anthony Gier
In this text, Anthony Gierzynski theorizes that, under the current system of financing elections, the political process has tilted too far in favor of political freedom, at the expense of political equality.