Academic Research

Abstract: For years, scholars of elections have argued about whether campaign finance limitations adversely affect electoral competition. In this article, we examine how the ...

The United States has a long history of creating “public records” and viewing at least some of these as an essential part of government accountability.Public records ...

Disclosure, proponents claim, produces a better functioning democracy: By requiring groups that advocate for or against issues on the ballot to reveal their funding sources and ...

‘Every dollar I spend over the threshold starts feeding the alligator trying to eat me.’’ That was the description of Arizona’s system for public financing of political ...

Corporate participation in public discourse has long been a controversial issue, one that was reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Much ...

The most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 2009– 2010 Supreme Court Term was, without question, Citizens United v. FEC.1 The decision has captured the public ...

In this article, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider examine a variety of disclosure mandates to assess the overall utility of disclosure. As disclosure ...

United States campaign finance law is riding a wave of constitutionally driven statutory change. After almost two decades of relative deference to Congress’s judgment, the Supreme ...

In January 2010, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC overturned long-standing regulations governing the role of unions and corporations in sponsoring pro-candidate advocacy. Many ...

Disclosure, normally the most widely embraced element of election regulation, became highly controversial in 2010. On the eve of the mid-term elections, a Washington Post ...