More Trouble for Justice Spargo

See this law.com report. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointer.

"Gerrymuddling in Texas"

The Christian Science Monitor offers this editorial.

Report on Louisiana Nonpartisan Primary

The Center for Voting and Democracy offers Louisiana's Nonpartisan Primary: Model or Travesty of Reform?. Thanks to Roy Ulrich for the pointer.

"Politics and the Business Corporation"

Robert Sitkoff's article in Regulation is also available on SSRN here. Here is the abstract:

This essay explores the policy bases for, and the political economy of, the law's long-standing regulation of corporate political speech. The essay has three parts. First, it contends that the conventional justifications for regulating corporate interventions in politics - that corporate donations unnaturally skew the political discourse (bad politics) and that corporate political donations harm shareholders (agency costs) - assume irrational investors and substantial capital market inefficiency. Drawing on public choice theory, the essay also explores the aim of retarding rent-seeking as an alternative justification for regulating corporate interventions in politics. Second, the essay reexamines the history of the regulation of corporate political speech and suggests a political economy analysis whereby corporations favored limitations on corporate donations in order to obtain protection from rent extraction by politicians. Finally, the essay explores the implications of this analysis for the modern regulation of corporate political donations.

"Libertarians in court to get party on Ohio ballots"

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer has this report. Thanks to Roy Schotland for the pointer.

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