Disclosure: A Threat to Associational Privacy

January 1, 2018  •  By IFS staff  •    •  

Disclosure, in the campaign finance context, refers to laws and regulations requiring candidates and political groups to report information about their activities to the government, which then makes that information available publicly. The required information varies greatly, depending on the affected organization and the local, state, or federal government mandating the disclosure. Disclosure rules fall into two broad categories: disclosure…

Professor Coates’ bad government proposal for the SEC

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December 30, 2013   •  By Brad Smith   •  

Last week, I commented on this blog post by Harvard Professor John Coates, in which he scolds the Securities and Exchange Commission for at ...

Did hundreds of thousands of “investors” really write “personally” to the SEC on corporate disclosure? No, not really.

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December 22, 2013   •  By Brad Smith   •  

As followers of this blog will know, for the last four years Democrats and others on the political left have been trying to get ...

The IRS, “Political Activity,” and “Disclosure:” A Brief Rejoinder to Mr. Ryan

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December 17, 2013   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  ,

The Campaign Legal Center’s blog today republished a letter to the editor penned by Paul S. Ryan, the Center’s Senior Counsel. Entitled “The IRS ...

Policy Primer: Campaign Finance Disclosure – The Devil is in the Details

December 1, 2013   •  By Matt Nese   •  ,

Disclosure laws vary between the federal government and the states, and from state to state, but the general framework is quite uniform. Most campaign finance ...

Disclosure and the Willingness to Contribute

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November 19, 2013   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

Here at CCP, we’ve long been engaged in weighing the costs and benefits of disclosure. A new study conducted by Raymond La Raja, Associate ...

Seeing the Light

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November 14, 2013   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

A recent New York Times opinion piece by CCP Academic Advisor David Primo titled “Against Disclosure” argued that disclosure laws involve greater costs and ...

Ad hominem attacks from “Sunlight”

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November 13, 2013   •  By David Keating   •  

The New York Times recently published an opinion piece by David Primo, one of CCP’s academic advisers. Prof. Primo’s article, while given the provocative ...

Political Participation and Civic Courage: The Negative Effect of Transparency on Making Small Campaign Contributions

November 1, 2013   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

This study assesses whether public disclosure of campaign contributions affects citizens’ willingness to give money to candidates. In the American states, campaign finance laws require disclosure ...

Blatant Partisanship and Outright Misinformation: Public Citizen’s Press Conference

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October 31, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Yesterday’s Public Citizen event calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate a rule forcing corporations to disclose their political spending was ...

Analysis of Recent Claims by Anti-Corporate Speech Activists

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October 30, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

This afternoon Public Citizen will hold a press briefing on the recent push by pro-regulation activists to force the Securities and Exchange Commission into ...

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