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Policy Primer: A Constitutional Solution to the Problems of Control and Accountability in Party Independent Expenditures
Steve Hoersting, Paul Sherman
March 2007
Category: Independent Speech, Political Parties
Center for Competitive Politics
Control and accountability in party independent expenditures can be restored constitutionally. As this Policy Primer indicates, one way is to eliminate the dollar limit on candidate-coordinated advertising by party committees.
Did Firms Profit from Soft Money?
Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr., and Michiko Ueda
March 2004
Category: 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
Larry J. Sabato
January 2000
Category: Coordination, 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.
