[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/11/15

Mon May 11 07:24:58 PDT 2015

    “Amid gridlock in D.C., influence industry expands rapidly in the
    states” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72368>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72368>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reid Wilson 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/05/11/amid-gridlock-in-d-c-influence-industry-expands-rapidly-in-the-states/>for 
WaPo.

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Posted inlegislation and legislatures 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,lobbying 
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    “Chief Justice Pat Roggensack says author of New Yorker article that
    criticizes Supreme Court ‘didn’t know his facts'”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72366>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:18 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72366>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: 
<http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/303222721.html>

    Wisconsin’s new Supreme Court chief justice has responded to an
    article in the New Yorker that called the court “a disgraceful mess”
    by saying the writer “didn’t have his facts straight.”

    The article
    <http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-destruction-of-the-wisconsin-supreme-court>,
    posted online Monday, said a legal fight over the chief justice
    position “is the latest drama in a decadelong saga that, largely
    through money-fuelled and often nasty judicial elections, has
    intensified the turn of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from a
    congenial, moderately liberal institution into a severely divided
    conservative stronghold. More to the point, the elections have
    reduced it from one of the nation’s most respected state tribunals
    into a disgraceful mess.”

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,judicial 
elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

    “New Study: Longer Presidential Campaigns Correlated With
    Contribution Limits” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72364>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72364>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CCP 
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2015/05/11/new-study-longer-presidential-campaigns-correlated-with-contribution-limits/>:

    The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest
    non-profit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to
    free political speech, assembly, and petition, todayreleased a study
    <http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Political-Climate-Change-How-Contribution-Limits-and-Campaign-Finance-Regulations-are-Lengthening-Campaigns-for-President-Web1.pdf>showing
    that since the Federal candidate contribution limits were
    implemented in 1974, the average duration of Presidential campaigns
    by the eventual party nominee has increased dramatically – by nearly
    200 days.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “Tightening Up the Super PACs” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72362>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:14 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72362>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT editorial. 
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-clinton-20150510-story.html>

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    “Conservative group put historic mark on campaign finance system”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72360>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72360>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today 
<http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/05/09/conservative-group-put-historic-mark-on-campaign-finance-system/>on 
Citizens United (the group).

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    “Solutions to Polarization in America”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72357>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:12 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72357>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nate Persily’s new edited volume 
<http://www.amazon.com/Solutions-Political-Polarization-America-Nathaniel/dp/1107451914/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430944239&sr=1-1>looks 
great.  TOC:

Introductory Chapters
1 Introduction
Nathaniel Persily
2 Causes and Consequences of Polarization
Michael J. Barber and Nolan McCarty
3 Confronting Asymmetric Polarization
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
Reforming the Electoral System
4 Polarization and Democratization
Arend Lijphart
5 Eroding the Electoral Foundations of Partisan Polarization
Gary C. Jacobson
6 Solutions to Polarization
Elaine C. Kamarck
7 Geography and Gridlock in the United States
Jonathan Rodden
Strengthening Parties
8 Stronger Parties as a Solution to Polarization
Nathaniel Persily
9 Reducing Polarization by Making Parties Stronger
Nolan McCarty
10 Focus on Political Fragmentation, Not Polarization: Re-Empower Party 
Leadership
Richard H. Pildes
11 Two Approaches to Lessening the Effects of Partisanship
Bruce Cain
Empowering and Informing Moderate Voters
12 Data Science for the People
Adam Bonica
13 Using Mobilization, Media, and Motivation to Curb Political Polarization
Markus Prior and Natalie Jomini Stroud
Lowering Barriers to Policy Making
14 Beyond Confrontation and Gridlock: Making Democracy Work for the 
American People
Alan I. Abramowitz
15 American Political Parties: Exceptional No More
David Karol
16 Partisan Polarization and the Senate Syndrome
Steven S. Smith
17 Finding the Center: Empowering the Latent Majority
Russell Muirhead
18 Making Deals in Congress
Sarah A. Binder and Frances E. Lee
19 Helping Congress Negotiate
Jane Mansbridge
20 Staying Private
George C. Edwards III

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Posted inpolitical polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    “John Roberts’s Roadmap for Campaign-Finance Reform”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72355>

Posted onMay 11, 2015 7:10 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72355>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ackerman and 
Ayres<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/john-robertss-roadmap-for-campaign-finance-reform/392615/>on 
Willams-Yulee.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme 
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