[EL] Efficacy of Campaign Finance Reform

[Steven John Mulroy (smulroy)]

I regret that I overlooked these sources below in my prior email.  The descriptions obviously speak for themselves.

From: Schultz, David A. [mailto:dschultz at hamline.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:47 AM
To: Steven John Mulroy (smulroy) <smulroy at memphis.edu>
Cc: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Efficacy of Campaign Finance Reform

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<mailto: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.

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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