February 8, 2001
The Election from Hell: a Retrospective on 2000 and the Reforms that need to Happen

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Campaign Finance  |  Electoral College  |  Elections & Reform (Other)

Campaign Finance

Websites

Federal Election Commission - http://www.fec.gov

In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) - the statute that governs the financing of federal elections. This site is useful for its statistics on registration, voting, and campaign finances.

Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.crp.org

A non-partisan non-profit organization, CRP specializes in the study of Congress and particularly the role that money plays in its elections and actions. Data about campaign finances available at this site, as well as CRP press releases.

 

American University Campaign Finance Website - http://www1.soc.american.edu/campfin/

Maintained by American University School of Communication, this site was designed to "help journalists improve their coverage of campaign finance issues." Contains data from 1996 - 2000 campaigns; summaries, tables, and downloadable files (from the FEC website, above)

 

Public Campaign - http://www.publicampaign.org/

Non profit non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of special interest money in America's elections and the influence of big contributors in American politics.

 

Brookings Insitute Campaign Finance - http://www.brook.edu/campaignfinance/

The special focus of this site is campaign finance law and administration. It provides critical background information on current law and regulations, tracks important legal developments in court cases and administrative decisions, and reports on proposed new legislation and other reform proposals. 

Books
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Articles
Smith, Bradley A. "Faulty assumptions and undemocratic consequences of campaign finance reform." Yale Law Journal 105, no. 4 (1996): 1049-[1091]. 
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Gross, Donald A., Todd G. Shields, and Robert K. Goidel. "Campaign finance reform and the 1994 congressional elections." Policy Studies Journal 25, Summer (1997): 215-234. 
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Judis, John B. "Goo-goos versus populists." American Prospect 30, Jan./Feb. (1997): 12-14. 
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Brubaker, Stanley C. "The limits of campaign spending limits." The Public Interest 133, Fall (1998): 33-54. 
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Grant, Alan. "The politics of American campaign finance." Parliamentary Affairs 51, no. 2 (1998): 223-240. 
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Hinkle, Charles F. "Can campaign finance reform coexist with the First Amendment?" Human Rights 25, no. 1 (1998): 16-18. 
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Kroszner, Randall S., and Thomas Stratmann. "Interest-group competition and the organization of Congress: theory and evidence from financial services' political action committees." The American Economic Review 88, no. 5 (1998): 1163-1187. 
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Lee, Tena Jamison. "A pro and con debate: How much campaign finance reform do we need?" Human Rights 25, no. 1 (1998): 14-15+.
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Starr, Paul. "The loophole we can't close. McCain-Feingold bill and the First Amendment." American Prospect 36, Jan./Feb. (1998): 6-9.
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Carney, Eliza Newlin. "A lose-lose situation on campaign reform?" National Journal 31, no. 32 (1999): 2316-2317. 
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Mandle, Jay, and Jon Mandle. "Elections as a public good." Challenge 42, no. 5 (1999): 50-62. 
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"Beyond checkbook democracy. Special issue." American Prospect 11, no. 21 (2000): 21-53.
A special section on money and politics 
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Ansolabehere, Stephen, and James M. Snyder, Jr. "Soft money, hard money, strong parties." Columbia Law Review 100, no. 3 (2000): 598-619. 
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Briffault, Richard. "The political parties and campaign finance reform." Columbia Law Review 100, no. 3 (2000): 620-666. 
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Bussey, Jane. "Campaign finance goes global." Foreign Policy 118, Spring (2000): 74-84. 
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Foerstel, Karen, and Peter Wallsten. "Campaign overhaul mired in money and loopholes." CQ Weekly, May 13 2000, 1084-1093. 
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Kaminer, Wendy. "Speech isn't cheap." American Prospect 11, no. 17 (2000): 38-39. 
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Nelson, Justin A. "The supply and demand of campaign finance reform." Columbia Law Review 100, no. 2 (2000): 524-557. 
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Shields, Todd G., and Robert K. Goidel. "Who contributes? Checkbook participation, class biases, and the impact of legal reforms, 1952-1994." American Politics Quarterly 28, no. 2 (2000): 216-233.
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Ware, Alan. "Anti-partism and party control of political reform in the United States: the case of the Australian ballot." British Journal of Political Science 30, no. 1 (2000): 1-29. 
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Yang, Elizabeth. "Balancing campaign finance reform against the First Amendment." Social Education 64, no. 5 (2000): 320-324. 
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Electoral College

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Longley, Lawrence D., and James D. Jr. Dana. "Estimating the likelihood of an unpopular verdict in the electoral college." Public Choice 70, no. 2 (1991): 215-224. 
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McCaughey, Elizabeth P. "Democracy at risk: the dangerous flaws in the Electoral College." Policy Review 63, Winter (1993): 79-81.
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Berns, Walter. "Third party candidates face a high hurdle in the electoral college." The American Enterprise 7, no. 1 (1996): 48-49.
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Hoffman, Matthew M. "The illegitimate President: minority vote dilution and the electoral college." Yale Law Journal 105, no. 4 (1996): 935-1021. 
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Brunell, Thomas, and Bernard Grofman. "The 1992 and 1996 presidential elections: whatever happened to the Republican electoral college lock?" Presidential Studies Quarterly 27, Winter (1997): 134-138. 
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Berthoud, John E. "The electoral lock thesis: the weighting bias component." PS: Political Science & Politics 30, no. 2 (1998): 189-193. 
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Ross, Beverly J., and William Josephson. "The electoral college and the popular vote." Journal of Law and Politics 12, no. 4 (1998): 665-747.
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James, Scott C., and Brian L. Lawson. "The political economy of voting rights enforcement in America's Gilded Age: electoral college competition, partisan commitment, and the federal election law." The American Political Science Review 93, no. 1 (1999): 115-131. 
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Shaw, Daron R. "The methods behind the madness: presidential electoral college strategies, 1988-1996." The Journal of Politics 61, no. 4 (1999): 893-913. 
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Nelson, Michael. "College for dunces." American Prospect 11, no. 25 (2000): 14-15. 
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Judis, John B. "Shut down the college." The American Prospect 12, no. 1 (2001): 10-11. 
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Elections & Reform (Other)

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     Ballot
     Elections
     Political Campaigns
     Voting
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Magleby, David B., and Kelly D. Patterson. "Congressional reform: the polls--poll trends." The Public Opinion Quarterly 58, no. 3 (1994): 419-427. 
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Norrander, Barbara. "Presidential nomination politics in the post-reform era." Political Research Quarterly 49, Dec. (1996): 875-915. 
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"Real political reform." The American Enterprise 8, no. 1 (1997): 32-36.
A special section on proposed political reform in the U.S.
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O'Beirne, Kate. "Institute single-sex voting." The American Enterprise 8, no. 1 (1997): 32. 
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Stein, Robert N., and Patricia A. Garcia-Monet. "Voting early but not often: 1992 presidential election." Social Science Quarterly 78, Sept. (1997): 657-671. 
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"A new democracy for a new century." National Civic Review 84, no. 1 (1998): 1-95.
A special issues on the prospect of creating a new democracy for a new century.
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Richie, Rob, Steven Hill, and Caleb Kleppner. "Reclaiming democracy in the 21st century: Instant runoffs, proportional representation, and cumulative voting." Social Policy 31, no. 2 (2000): 35-42. 
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Shaw, Greg M., and Amy S. Ragland. "The polls--trends: political reform." The Public Opinion Quarterly 64, no. 2 (2000): 206-225. 
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Steger, Wayne P. "Do primary voters draw from a stacked deck? Presidential nominations in an era of candidate-centered campaigns." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30, no. 4 (2000): 727-753. 
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