Political Parties

Comments on Hybrid Communications

Published on June 11, 2007

File Under: Contributions & Limits, Coordination, Political Parties

CCP comments on the FEC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding "hybrid communications."  Executive Director Steve Hoersting urges the Commission to avoid inquiry into the subjective value of political communications, and to continue allowing candidates and parties to share advertising costs according to clear, flexible rules.

Did Firms Profit from Soft Money?

Published on March 15, 2004
by Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr., and Michiko Ueda

File Under: Contributions & Limits, Political Parties

Election Law Journal, Spring 2004
This paper uses event study methodology to measure whether firms that gave soft money to political parties received excessively high rates of returns from their contributions.

PACs and Parties

Published on January 3, 2000
by Larry J. Sabato

File Under: Political Committees & 527s, Political Parties

Political money: deregulating American politics, selected writings on campaign finance reform/edited by Annelise Anderson. Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 459
This chapter first appeared in Money, Elections, and Democracy: Reforming Congressional Campaign Finance, edited by Margaret Lotus Nugent and John R. Johannes (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 187–204. In "PACs and Parties," Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia and the author of several books on the American political process, considers the relationship between political action committees and political parties, especially since the passage of the campaign finance legislation of the 1970s.