Academic Research

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 ...

It is appropriate for an article about the Supreme Court's Buckley opinion to appear in a law review in the Buckeye State. In terms of ...

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 ...

In the wake of recent reports of questionable campaign finance practices have come ever more draconian proposals to "reform" the campaign finance system. Those proposals ...

Eliminating political party “soft money” and regulating similar spending by groups other than political parties are central features of many proposals that would reform campaign financing. ...

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 ...