Mandle The Political Market Analysis

In Mandle’s article, The Political Market, the author attempts to remove the veil that has been coving the eyes of the public, and reveal the electoral market. This market can be understood from this politician’s quote, “What businessmen do not understand is that exactly as they are dealing in oil, so I am dealing in votes” (Mandle, 2013). Mandle asserts that the current system gives favor to those who can afford to financial support the politicians, while leaving those who cannot voiceless (Mandle, 2013). His solution to the problem is to reform the political system to correspond with the idea of a public good (Mandle, 2013). However, before we examine if this reform will work let us first outline Mandle’s argument. To begin Mandle identifies that our democracy has been flawed by “powerful players” who will shape public debate and
Thus, that would mean that all parties whether they be the Democrats and Republicans, or third parties, such as the Green party and Libertarian, would all have to receive the same amount of funding. Ignoring the obvious problem of establishing what constitutes as a party to receive equal funding, if this were to occur it would create a competitive and efficient market. Requiring all candidates regardless of party to acknowledge negative externalities that were occurring or risk becoming obsolete. I say this because now companies cannot pay their candidate into office to prevent negative regulations from occurring due to the political playing field being leveled out. For example, imagine the difficulty that candidates would have at stating global warming was not an issue if member of the green party had equal reach and power; and were thus able to easily distribute resources to prove this statement to be ludicrous. However, once again a flaw occurs in deciding what constitutes a party that get equal