Political Spending

The Institute for Justice joins hands with CCP and other supporters such as the Cato Institute to fight Vermont’s Act 64, which imposes expenditure limits on ...

Proponents of measures to make independent section 527 organizations into “political committees” under the Federal Election Campaign Act, subjecting the organizations to federal campaign limits and ...

Electoral competition is thought to be the cornerstone of democratic rule, yet many policymakers, scholars, and concerned citizens perceive the existence of a competitiveness crisis in ...

The two cases we’ve been discussing this week share, in my mind, a defining characteristic: each involves attempts to fool the Court about what ...

Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), television advertising was the main way candidates for office communicated with voters. Before the passage of ...

This paper examines evidence of sampling or statistical bias in newspaper reporting on campaign finance. We compile all stories from the five largest circulation newspapers ...

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

Conventional wisdom states that incumbents possess resources that prevent quality candidates from challenging them. This is a potential problem because quality challengers are more likely to ...

This paper uses event study methodology to measure whether firms that gave soft money to political parties received excessively high rates of returns from their ...

This chapter first appeared in The Medium and the Message:  Television Advertising and American Elections, edited by Kenneth Goldstein and Patricia Strach (Englewood Cliffs, ...