by jpitney | Feb 28, 2024 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives, Madison
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In grappling for an appropriate analogy for this new procedural game in town, I finally settled on circle dodgeball, labeled here as “procedural dodgeball.” A large circle is drawn and, in the middle a smaller circle with five or so...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2022 | Congress, Dreier, Madison
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 | Oct 9, 2020 | Law, Madison, Regulation
Federalist 62: To trace the mischievous effects of a mutable government would fill a volume. I will hint a few only, each of which will be perceived to be a source of innumerable others. In the first place, it forfeits the respect and confidence of other...
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...
by jpitney | Sep 11, 2020 | Congress, Deliberation, Madison
Yuval Levin at National Review: Most often, proposals for reform are what we might call (following the political scientist Daniel Stid) Wilsonian rather than Madisonian: Implicitly following the advice of Woodrow Wilson, they aim to remake Congress along the model of...