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
- “What Is the Place of Corporate Money in Democratic Politics?”
- “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 Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Law
- “Campaign Finance ‘Reform’ Proposals: A First Amendment Analysis”
- “First Amendment Basics Redux: Buckley v. Valeo to FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life”
Bruce E. Cain
Professor of Political Science, Stanford University and Director Designate of the Bill Lane Center for the American West
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
Founder, President, and General Counsel, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
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, 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
- The Legacy of Buckley v. Valeo
- “Buckley v. Valeo: A Landmark of Political Freedom”
Jeffrey Milyo
Frederick A. Middlebush Chair in the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, University of Missouri
- “Do State Campaign Finance Reforms Reduce Public Corruption?”
- “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
Director, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, and Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Economics, Duke University
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”
Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia, and Director, UVA Center for Politics
- “Move to Defend The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United”
- “The Costs of Mandating Disclosure“
- “The DISCLOSE Act, Deliberation, and the First Amendment“
- “Broadcast Localism and the Effectiveness of the Fairness Doctrine”
- “A Critique of the National Popular Vote Plan for Electing the President”
- The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform