Academic Research

When government lawyers make arguments seeking to justify a state’s infringement of a constitutional right, they tend not to say something like “most people think a ...

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, ...

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 both Maine and Arizona, the number of legislative candidates who chose to use public financing for their campaigns increased greatly from 2000 to 2002. In ...

McCain-style campaign finance regulation is the new campaign reality. But what exactly will this reformist utopia look like? Assessing the “reformed” campaign of the future against the stated ...

Although it is a state of only modest size and influence, Maine finds itself on the cutting edge of the national movement to restructure campaign finance through ...

I n the 2000 race for the presidency, Arizona senator John McCain promoted campaign finance reform as a partial remedy for widespread citizen cynicism toward politics. On ...

Following the passage of McCain-Feingold in 2002, advocates of additional campaign finance regulation hope to persuade Congress and some states to pass legislation that requires government financing of ...

Thirty years ago, Gordon Tullock posed a provocative puzzle: considering the value of public policies at stake and the reputed in°uence of campaign contributions in ...