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Absent Party Discipline

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By the late 1970s the leadership of the Democratic and Republican Parties, along with some political scholars, began to complain that the limitations on campaign contributions to political parties were marginalizing the role of the parties in the campaign process, and was contributing to declining levels of voter turnout. Absent party discipline, there is no mechanism for voters to hold parties accountable for the actions of their members, and this limits control of the government by the public.In 1979, the Federal Election Commission issued new regulations that permitted national political parties to accept unlimited donations for so-called party-building activities, including voter
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