Tax-Financed Campaigns

In Maine and Arizona, legislative candidates’ participation in the public financing programs, as measured by the percentage of candidates participating and the proportion of races with ...

These types of programs are often introduced with grand promises for freeing candidates from the pressures of fundraising, alleviating them of ties to special interests, ...

I am here today to testify on the serious concerns my organization has with Senate Bill 681, which would create a taxpayer financing scheme for ...

The 2008 election cycle was the first in Connecticut where candidates for state legislature could choose to accept taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, replacing ...

Campaign finance regulations are constitutional only to prevent the corruption of candidates and officeholders or its appearance. See generally Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 ...

On March 31, 2009, Senators Arlen Specter (DPa.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) introduced almost identical bills in the ...

Thank you for inviting me to testify on campaign finance reform. My name is Laura Renz, and I am the Research Director at the Center ...

I appreciate the opportunity to submit testimony with respect to Maryland Senate Bill 663 — the Public Campaign Financing Act for Candidates for the ...

Reporting on the first public forum held by this Commission just last week, the Daily Herald led with the question, “Could public financing of political ...

In 2007, the state of New Jersey conducted its second experiment with taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by advocates of such programs