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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…

The Costs of Mandating Disclosure
November 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

The composer Benjamin Britten once said that there “are a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I ...

Testimony of CCP Research & Government Relations Director Laura Renz to the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee
August 18, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , , ,

The legislation being discussed today represents an understandable but misguided approach to campaign finance law. In fact, Pennsylvania’s current status as one of only eleven ...

Disclosures about Disclosure
July 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s foundation-shifting decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the media and other commentators could be forgiven for mostly overlooking a ...

The DISCLOSE Act, Deliberation, and the First Amendment
June 28, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

The United States Supreme Court decided in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that Congress may not prohibit spending on political speech by corporations. President Obama and ...

Testimony of CCP President Sean Parnell to New Jersey State Assembly Judicial Committee
June 14, 2010   •  By Sean Parnell   •  , ,

Thank you for allowing me to submit testimony on A2595, a bill to require disclosure of the donor and membership lists of private organizations. I ...

DISCLOSE Act—The Legislative “Fix” to Citizens United
May 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Citizens United v. FEC. Since then, congressional critics of the Court's broad holding ...

Mowing Down the Grassroots: How Grassroots Lobbying Disclosure Suppresses Political Participation
April 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

Grassroots lobbying is any effort to organize, coordinate or implore others to contact public officials in order to affect public policy. Through grassroots ...

Examining the Unconstitutionality of Montana’s Disclosure Laws
April 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

As political campaigns have become more expensive1 and sophisticated,2 Congress has increasingly regulated them,3 yet the Supreme Court has declared many aspects of that regulation unconstitutional.4 Recently, ...

Campaign Finance Disclosure and the Legislative Process
February 1, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

The public debate over campaign finance reform has at its core a very serious and troubling contradiction. Advocates of campaign finance restrictions decry the subversive effect ...

Mandatory Disclosure for Ballot-Initiative Campaigns
April 1, 2009   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

One of the most controversial election-related issues in recent decades unquestionably has been campaign finance. On the heels of the Watergate scandal, campaign-finance laws at both ...

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