Academic Research

Would “party-centered” campaign finance laws that channel money primarily through party organizations improve American politics? Scholars have long argued that political parties are essential mediating institutions ...

The implementation and expansion of public funding programs around the U.S. over the past decade raised the possibility of major changes in the financing of ...

Political corruption is typically defined as “crimes by public officials for personal gain.”1 But there should be no doubt about the corrosive effects of malfeasance among ...

Research on local turnout has focused on institutions, with little attention devoted to examining the impact of campaigns. Using an original data set containing information ...

For a half century, campaign finance jurisprudence has turned on the Supreme Court’s distinction between political contributions and campaign expenditures. In Buckley v. Valeo, 1 the Court ...

The Supreme Court has long held that campaign finance regulations are permissible for preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption. Yet the implied hypothesis that ...

By way of introduction, let me note that I am an attorney engaged full-time as a practitioner in political law. I spend my days advising people ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC was one of its most controversial in decades. Critics of the decision argued it ...

Do politicians better represent the interests of their higher income constituents? Perhaps because of the increasing costs of campaigns, or the greater participation of high ...

This paper seeks to understand the effect of campaign finance laws on electoral and policy outcomes. Spurred by the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United ...