Political Spending

Federal campaign spending for all candidates running for the House and the Senate has risen by 180 in real terms from 1976 to 1994, ...

The relationships between political action committees and political parties are at once symbiotic and parasitic. Both parties work hard to cultivate PACs and secure their money, ...

House and Senate candidates raise approximately $200 million in campaign contributions from political action committees each election cycle. The lion’s share of this money goes ...

Campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) are often portrayed in the media as the functional equivalent of bribes. In particular, corporate PAC contributions are ...

This selection was excerpted from Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). In this article, Frank J. Sorauf, a distinguished political ...

Do special interest campaign contributions significantly alter how politicians vote on legislative issues? Can these political action committee (PAC) contributions ‘‘buy’’ votes within the Congress? Despite ...

Our system of campaign financing fosters subterfuge and corruption, favors wealthy candidates over those not so blessed, puts candidates on a perpetual fund-raising treadmill, and is ...

Efforts to limit political contributions and spending are extremely popular. Yet there is no serious evidence that campaign finance regulation has achieved or will achieve ...