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Legislator Occupations – Change or Status Quo After Clean Elections?
Published on May 6, 2008
File Under: "Clean" Elections, Taxpayer Financing
CCP released its second Issue Analysis today studying the impact of so-called "clean elections" programs in Maine and Arizona.
Proponents of taxpayer-financed political campaigns like to claim that such programs allow "ordinary citizens" to serve in government.
CCP looked at the data and found that forcing taxpayers to fund political campaigns has no impact on the occupational diversity of members of the legislature.
Click HERE for the full study.
