Political Spending

This article presents the first comprehensive analysis of the role of war chests in U.S. Senate elections. Using data on races from 1980 to 2000, ...

Barron's is predicting minimal Republican losses this year, based almost entirely on candidate fund raising totals.  How valid is this analysis?  Click the header ...

Ned Lamont's primary victory over Joe Lieberman exposes the ways in which our campaign finance laws distort the political choices available to Americans and ...

he rich tapestry of American campaign finance law continued to accumulate threads with the Court’s decisions this term in Randall v. Sorrell4 and Wisconsin Right to ...

The Institute for Justice joins hands with CCP and other supporters such as the Cato Institute to fight Vermont’s Act 64, which imposes expenditure limits on ...

Proponents of measures to make independent section 527 organizations into “political committees” under the Federal Election Campaign Act, subjecting the organizations to federal campaign limits and ...

Electoral competition is thought to be the cornerstone of democratic rule, yet many policymakers, scholars, and concerned citizens perceive the existence of a competitiveness crisis in ...

The two cases we’ve been discussing this week share, in my mind, a defining characteristic: each involves attempts to fool the Court about what ...

Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), television advertising was the main way candidates for office communicated with voters. Before the passage of ...

This paper examines evidence of sampling or statistical bias in newspaper reporting on campaign finance. We compile all stories from the five largest circulation newspapers ...