Do Voters Understand Super PACs?

March 23, 2012   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

Two years and two election cycles into the Super PAC era, the media firestorm against free speech and association has been palpable. A Google search ...

Activist Investing in Post-Citizens United America

November 18, 2011   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the scope of political speech protected under the ...

An Analysis of Corporate Governance Reforms Proposed in Response to Citizens United to Limit Corporate Political Spending

October 20, 2011   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

In the much discussed Citizens United v. FEC case, the Supreme Court overturned existing prohibitions on corporate political expenditures and recognized that outright prohibitions on ...

Activist Investing In Post-Citizens United America

October 20, 2011   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the scope of political speech protected under the First Amendment ...

Corporate Governance and Campaign Finance: Supplemental Readings

October 18, 2011   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

Corporations, like unions and other organizations, have a constitutional right to discuss politics. The Supreme Court has explicitly welcomed corporate speech on political topics, including ...

Clean Elections and Scandal: Case studies from Maine, Arizona & New York City

September 23, 2011   •  By Jason Farrell   •  ,

On June 27, 2011 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett that the election policies of several states ...

The First Amendment…United

June 1, 2011   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

Perhaps the most important thing that the Supreme Court does is to protect those individual rights and enforce those government limits that comprise our civil liberties. ...

Citizens United, Citizens’ Lives: A comparison of states with and without prohibitions on corporate independent expenditures

July 14, 2010   •  By Sean Parnell   •  ,

Money from Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and the rest of the Fortune 500 is already corroding the policy making process in Washington, state capitals and ...

Meet the New Legislature, Same as the Old Legislature: Early findings of an examination of legislator voting patterns in the first year of the Citizens’ Election Program

March 2, 2010   •  By Sean Parnell   •  ,

The 2008 election cycle was the first in Connecticut where candidates for state legislature could choose to accept taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, replacing ...

Fairly Flawed: Analysis of the 2009 Fair Elections Now Act

July 1, 2009   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

On March 31, 2009, Senators Arlen Specter (DPa.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) introduced almost identical bills in the ...

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