Academic Research

In this University of Pennsylvania Law Review article, author Margaret H. Zhang assesses the constitutionality of state false statement law statutes in the wake ...

In a well-publicized study, Gilens and Page argue that economic elites and business interest groups exert strong influence on US government policy while average citizens ...

During the Obama years, the American left has regularly and forcefully claimed that “corporations are not people.” Progressives ranging from ordinary protestors all the way up ...

Anonymous political speech has been essential to democratic discourse since the founding of our republic. Ratification of the U.S. Constitution was primarily debated ...

Using the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) database on political finance regulations for 82 countries, we found that a contribution limits index ...

The right to private civic engagement – the right to participate in politics confidentially as an individual or in association with others – is under ...

Abstract: Research on political science has been inconclusive in establishing whether political campaigns significantly influence electoral results. This study attempts to solve the dispute ...

This report provides brief answers to frequently asked questions about increased campaign contribution limits in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 83; P.L. ...

In a series of First Amendment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court established that government may regulate campaign finance, but not if regulation imposes costs on ...

This Article examines relevant evidence to determine whether, as some have argued, the original legal force of the First Amendment’s “freedom of the press” included a ...