Expert Analysis

First, it is important to note that long before the Court’s decision in Citizens United, corporations, unions and other groups could spend an unlimited amount ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, there has been significant speculation as to how the ...

"Before the FEC adopted a content standard in its coordination investigations, the specter of a coordination investigation served as a kind of Hobson's choice ...

Campaign finance regulations are constitutional only to prevent the corruption of candidates and officeholders or its appearance. See generally Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 ...

Thank you for inviting me to testify on campaign finance reform. My name is Laura Renz, and I am the Research Director at the Center ...

I appreciate the opportunity to submit testimony with respect to Maryland Senate Bill 663 — the Public Campaign Financing Act for Candidates for the ...

Reporting on the first public forum held by this Commission just last week, the Daily Herald led with the question, “Could public financing of political ...

Connecticut’s taxpayers subsidized political candidates to the tune of $9.3 million in 2008,1 under the idea put forth by “clean elections” proponents that doing so would “remove ...

As the Commission is aware, the advisory opinion was requested by the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC), “a non-stock, not-for-profit corporation, exempt from ...

The Center for Competitive Politics comments to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board in regards to its review of issue advocacy regulation.