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Public Financing Of Judicial Campaigns: Practices And Prospects , Michael W. Bowers Sep 2003

Public Financing Of Judicial Campaigns: Practices And Prospects , Michael W. Bowers

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Cheap Talk Citizenship: The Democratic Implications Of Voting With Dollars, Bruce E. Cain May 2003

Cheap Talk Citizenship: The Democratic Implications Of Voting With Dollars, Bruce E. Cain

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer May 2003

Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Response To Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm For Campaign Finance, Fred Wertheimer, Alexandra T.V. Edsall May 2003

Response To Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm For Campaign Finance, Fred Wertheimer, Alexandra T.V. Edsall

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams May 2003

Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dollars And Sense: A "New Paradigm" For Campaign Finance Reform?, Daniel A. Farber May 2003

Dollars And Sense: A "New Paradigm" For Campaign Finance Reform?, Daniel A. Farber

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Voting With Cues, Elizabeth Garrett May 2003

Voting With Cues, Elizabeth Garrett

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Vouchers And Buckley: The Need For "Regime Change", Richard L. Hasan May 2003

Vouchers And Buckley: The Need For "Regime Change", Richard L. Hasan

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why A New Paradigm?, Bruce Ackerman, Ian Ayres May 2003

Why A New Paradigm?, Bruce Ackerman, Ian Ayres

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Barriers To Participation, Trevor Potter, Marianne H. Viray Apr 2003

Barriers To Participation, Trevor Potter, Marianne H. Viray

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Despite the nation's founding commitment to participatory democracy, many barriers to candidate and public participation in the electoral process are damaging the public's confidence that our elections are fair and open to full participation by candidates and voters.

The nominating processes created by the two major parties mainly serve the goals of party "insiders" and the more politically extreme factions, at the expense of competition and public confidence in the two-party system. At the same time, barriers to minor party and independent candidates-closed primaries, excessive early-voter registration requirements and complicated state primary and general ballot access requirements-operate to foreclose the …


Reforming Campaign Finance Reform: A Review Of Voting With Dollars, Richard Briffault Jan 2003

Reforming Campaign Finance Reform: A Review Of Voting With Dollars, Richard Briffault

Faculty Scholarship

On March 27, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("BCRA") into law. The culmination of a six-year legislative and political struggle, BCRA works the most comprehensive change in federal campaign finance law in nearly three decades. BCRA addresses a broad range of issues, including soft money, issue-advocacy advertising, fundraising on federal property, campaign activities of foreign nationals, and penalties for violation of campaign finance laws. Enacted in the face of intense political opposition, BCRA, if it stands up in court, is a significant reform achievement.

Or is it? BCRA closely follows the main …


Strategic Voting And African-Americans: True Vote, True Representation, True Power For The Black Community, Maxine Burkett Jan 2003

Strategic Voting And African-Americans: True Vote, True Representation, True Power For The Black Community, Maxine Burkett

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

As long as American politics remain securely bound to the two-party system, Blacks will remain a voting block; a block that may shift, but a block nonetheless. And although this appears to be to our strategic disadvantage, allowing conviction to direct us, as well as a deep respect for the intense struggle for the franchise, will forever be a noble posture.


Why Is There So Little Money In U.S. Politics?, John M. De Figueiredo, Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr. Jan 2003

Why Is There So Little Money In U.S. Politics?, John M. De Figueiredo, Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.