Political Spending

Americans for Campaign Reform, a reform advocacy group chaired by former US Senators Bill Bradley, Bob Kerrey, Warren Rudman and Alan Simpson (of the ...

Justice Holmes famously asserted that “the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the ...

I present a model of fund-raising in repeated elections where funds are raised to deter the entry of strong challengers, and to increase the probability ...

For many Americans, money is one of the most troubling aspects in modern election campaigns. The reasons voters give are simple: money is seen as a barrier ...

Twenty-four states permit citizens to make laws directly through ballot measures. These states also regulate how citizens—if they band together—may speak out about them. In the name ...

Abstract: Popular accounts of interest group influence in the policy process often focus on organizational budgets and campaign contributions, asserting that these resources lead ...

This article presents the first comprehensive analysis of the role of war chests in U.S. Senate elections. Using data on races from 1980 to 2000, ...

Barron's is predicting minimal Republican losses this year, based almost entirely on candidate fund raising totals.  How valid is this analysis?  Click the header ...

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 ...

he rich tapestry of American campaign finance law continued to accumulate threads with the Court’s decisions this term in Randall v. Sorrell4 and Wisconsin Right to ...