[EL] Efficacy of Campaign Finance Reform

[Schultz, David A.]

Steve:
Take a look of of a piece of mine from a decade ago.  I do a 50 state
analysis of state campaign finance law regimes and find that some types of
legal regimes do a better job at addressing money than others.  It is one
of the few efforts out there that actually uses empirical data to address
many of the issues that  the listserv often debates with conjecture and
sometimes ideology. “Disclosure is not Enough:  Empirical Lessons from
State Experiences,” 4 Election Law Journal 349 (2005).

In addition, my older book:  Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform
Law in the States,Carolina Academic Press, 2002 does a series of case
studies to try to tell us what we learn about different types of legal
regimes and how they regulate money.

The simple answer is that law matters and different regulatory systems
yield different impacts.  Using states as a focus for examination we have
natural experiments that give us lots of good empirical data.



On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Steven John Mulroy (smulroy) <
smulroy at memphis.edu> wrote:

> Many of my election law students are of the view that all campaign finance
> reform efforts are doomed, that money always has been and always will be
> the determinant factor in politics.  I think this view may color their
> opinion of the value of learning about the law of campaign finance.
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> I wonder if any of you can refer me to any studies, articles, or data
> suggesting that campaign finance reforms (even ones subsequently
> invalidated by the Court) can be effective?
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