CCP Welcomes Research Fellow Alex Cordell

June 6, 2017   •  By Matt Nese   •  ,

The Center for Competitive Politics is excited to welcome Alex Cordell to our External Relations Department as our newest Research Fellow. Prior to joining ...

Time for Weintraub to Step Down?

June 5, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub’s actions in recent months cast serious doubt on whether she can continue to credibly carry on her duties as ...

Recent Political Documentaries Have a Knee-Jerk Skepticism of Free Speech

June 2, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , , ,

I recently watched the new Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone, about the eponymous Republican political insider. The film traces Stone’s career from its ...

Supporters of Public Financing Still Cannot Make a Convincing Case

May 17, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

A debate about taxpayer-financing of political campaigns has sprung up in New Hampshire over the last few weeks. The discussion began when former Vice ...

Roosevelt Institute Study on “Political Money” is Not the Revelation It Claims to Be

May 16, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

A new study on the impact of “money in politics” has been released by the Roosevelt Institute, and sympathetic outlets are already hailing it ...

Uproar in New Jersey after Congressman Names and Shames a Critic

May 16, 2017   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

A troubling story came to light this week out of New Jersey, where a bank employee resigned her position in part due to pressure ...

CLC Says CCP’s Wrong about “Dark Money.” Here are the Facts. Readers can Decide.

May 9, 2017   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  , ,

In a blog post from earlier today, the Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fischer critiques a mid-April CCP blog post I authored highlighting “Five Lessons ...

AEI Panel Explores the Reasons for Congressional Gridlock

May 8, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

On Monday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted an event titled “Is Congress Broken?” It featured contributing authors and editors of a book by the ...

Cato Holds Discussion on New Floyd Abrams Book on First Amendment

May 2, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

On Monday, the Cato Institute hosted a forum to discuss Floyd Abrams’s new book, The Soul of the First Amendment. Abrams is well known ...

Citizen Sleuth or Citizen Snoop? The Dangers of Disclosure in the Internet Age

May 1, 2017   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  ,

At its core, the debate about political disclosure is actually pretty simple. The information provided about donors to the government has the benefit of ...

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