Academic Advisors

Academic Advisors

In Memoriam, Herbert E. Alexander
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California; Director, Citizens Research Foundation

Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Government and Political Science, Harvard University

  • “Unrepresentative Information:  The Case of Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance”
  • “Did Firms Profit from Soft Money?”
  • “Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked? New Evidence from the 1995 Lobby Disclosure Act”
  • “Why is there So Little Money in U.S. Politics?”


Lillian R. BeVier (retired)

David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

  • “Campaign Finance ‘Reform’ Proposals:  A First Amendment Analysis”

Bruce E. Cain
Heller Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and Director, UC Washington Center, Washington, DC

  • “Shade from the Glare:  The Case for Semi-Disclosure”


John Coleman
Professor of Political Science and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • “Pay to Play:  Parties, Interests, and Money in Federal Elections”
  • “The Benefits of Campaign Spending”
  • “The Distribution of Campaign Spending Benefits across Groups”
  • “Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy”


Richard M. Esenberg
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School

  • “The Lonely Death of Public Campaign Financing”


Jay Goodliffe

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University

  • “Campaign Fund-raising and Spending for Deterrence and Savings”
  • “Campaign War Chests and Challenger Quality in Senate Elections”
  • “When do War Chests Deter?”
  • “War Chests as Precautionary Savings”
  • “The Effect of War Chests on Challenger Entry in U.S. House Elections”
  • “Campaign Finance in U.S. House Primary and General Elections”


Joel M. Gora

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Brooklyn Law School

  • “The First Amendment…United”
  • Statement of Joel Gora Concerning the Proposed Executive Order on Disclosure of Political Spending by Government Contractors
  • Better Parties, Better Government:  A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform
  • “Buckley v. Valeo:  A Landmark of Political Freedom”

Jeffrey Milyo
Middlebush Professor of Social Science, Department of Economics, University of Missouri

  • “Keep Out:  How State Campaign Finance Laws Erect Barriers to Entry for Political Entrepreneurs”
  • “Mowing Down the Grassroots:  How Grassroots Lobbying Disclosure Suppressess Political Participation”
  • “Campaign Finance Red Tape:  Strangling Free Speech & Political Debate”
  • “State Campaign Finance Reform, Competitiveness, and Party Advantage in Gubernatorial Elections”
  • “Corporate PAC Campaign Contributions in Perspective”

Michael C. Munger
Chairman, Department of Political Science, Duke University

  • “Locking Up Political Speech:  How Electioneering Communications Laws Stifle Free Speech and Civic Engagement”

David M. Primo
Associate Professor of Political Science and Business Administration, University of Rochester

  • “What Does Research Say About Public Funding for Political Campaigns?”
  • “Campaign Finance Laws and Political Efficacy:  Evidence from the States”
  • “The Effects of Campaign Finance Laws on Turnout, 1950-2000″
  • “Public Opinion and Campaign Finance:  Reformers Versus Reality”

Larry J. Sabato
Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia, and Director, UVA Center for Politics

  • “PACs and Parties”
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