First Amendment and Campaigns

Jared DeMarinis, of the Maryland State Board of Elections, has referred Governor Bob Ehrlich's campaign to a state prosecutor because Ehrlich employed a common ...

Ned Lamont's primary victory over Joe Lieberman exposes the ways in which our campaign finance laws distort the political choices available to Americans and ...

The organized press has long served as a complaisant cheerleader for campaign finance restrictions, confident that the regulations they enthusiastically support will never come ...

CCP's Co-Founder and Senior Advisor Brad Smith doubts in his diary at RedState.com whether Senator John ...

The coordination provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act are among the least understood and most far reaching of the Act.

Do war chests deter challengers? And if so, under what circumstances do they deter? An anecdote reveals one circumstance when war chests may deter.

Critics of American politics often say that spending on electoral campaigns harms our democracy and charge that the money goes for cynical, negative, and ...

In this article, Jay Goodliffe challenges conventional wisdom on the effect of war chests in U.S. House elections. As many "reformers" suggest that war ...

Scholarly attention to congressional campaign spending has focused primarily on the benefits candidates receive from that spending, from challenger deterrence to election victory to ...

The campaign finance reform ‘campaign’ is controlled and financed by liberal Democrats: wealthy soft money donors to the Democratic party and candidates, liberal foundations and Democratic ...