by jpitney | Sep 18, 2023 | Campaign Finance, Elections, Violence
Greg Morton Marianna Sotomayor and Camila DeChalus at WP: Candidates running for House and Senate offices increased campaign spending on security by more than 500 percent between the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms, a new Washington Post analysis of filings with...
by jpitney | Jul 10, 2023 | Campaign Finance, Crime, Polarization
Polarization and partisan animosity provide an opportunity for scam artists to make money — sometimes from both sides at once. Laura J. Nelson reports at LAT Two Californians set up a pair of political action committees, called the Liberty Action Group and the...
by jpitney | May 29, 2022 | Campaign Finance, Madison
Michael J. Malbin * | 23.5 | Article | Citation: Michael J. Malbin, A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, Pluralism, and Small Donors, 23 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 907 (2021). Recent events remind us of the importance and fragility of the...
by jpitney | Sep 12, 2020 | Campaign Finance, Federalist, Madison, Uncategorized
At APSA, Michael Malbin has a paper titled “A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, Pluralism, and Small Donors.” This working paper steps away from the speech-and-corruption debates that have dominated campaign finance...
