The work examines the legal challenge to the new Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (BCRA) which is in federal court. Both sides have assembled expert reports and testimony from some of the US's best-known academic experts and political practitioners. These materials, filed with the court but difficult for the general public to access and evaluate, provide a window onto contemporary practices and disputes over party soft money and "issue advocacy". This work contains edited selections of reports filed by scholars and practitioners on both sides of the legal debate over the new campaign finance law. The editors provide an overview of the legal context and empirical issues central to the dispute, as well as roadmaps to each report. The volume does not try to assess the constitutional arguments made in the litigation. Instead, it makes available to the general public and scholars competing arguments and evidence on campaign finance law and practice.
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"I nside the Campaign Finance Battle is very highly recommended —and as is timely as it is a welcome addition to Political Science Studies reference collections and reading lists." — The Midwest Book Review
"This book provides a comprehensive source book for opinions —from academics, politicians and reform advocates —on the merits of campaign finance reform in the US." —Michael C. Munger, Duke University, Political Studies Review, 1/1/2004
"If nothing else, lay readers of this book will come away with a clearer understanding of campaign finance, but political scientists, political practitioners, and lawyers will be its main beneficiaries." —William C. Loughan, Ohio Wesleyan University, Perspectives on Political Science, 1/1/2004
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Anthony Corrado is professor of government at Colby College and a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a member of Caplin and Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office, and a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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This review is from: Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms (Paperback)
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Anthony Corrado (Professor of Government, Colby College), Thomas E. Mann (W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution), and Trevor Potter (Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute), Inside The Campaign Finance Battle is a fascinating collection of court testimony and the legal odyssey surrounding the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which was passed by Congress in 2002, and which was the first major revision of federal campaign finance law in a generation. The submitted testimony, once presented only to lawyers, political scientists, and others involved in the litigation, is now offered to all concerned readers looking to better understand how our government works and the struggles over how, or if the system is to be modified in the present and future. Inside The Campaign Finance Battle is very highly recommended -- and as timely as it is a welcome addition to Political Science Studies reference collections and reading lists.
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Congress last year enacted the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, the first major revision of federal campaign finance law in a generation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genuine issue ads, electioneering advertisements, electioneering ads, interest group ads, nonfederal money, public opinion and corruption, election advocacy, federal election activity, state party activity, using nonfederal funds, political television ads, nonfederal accounts, nonfederal candidates, electioneering communications, magic words test, general election cycle, federal election activities, other party committees, party ads, party soft money, large political contributions, congressional campaign spending, candidate ads, mentioning candidates, national party committees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buying Time, Professor Gibson, Professor Goldstein, Democratic Party, Federal Election Commission, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, New York, Supreme Court, Brennan Center, The Other Campaign, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee, United States, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Donald Green, Federal Election Campaign Act, Sierra Club, New Mexico, Professor La Raja, Chamber of Commerce, House of Representatives, Kenneth Goldstein, Michigan Eighth Congressional District, New Hampshire, New Jersey New!
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Congress last year enacted the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, the first major revision of federal campaign finance law in a generation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genuine issue ads, electioneering advertisements, electioneering ads, interest group ads, nonfederal money, public opinion and corruption, election advocacy, federal election activity, state party activity, using nonfederal funds, political television ads, nonfederal accounts, nonfederal candidates, electioneering communications, magic words test, general election cycle, federal election activities, other party committees, party ads, party soft money, large political contributions, congressional campaign spending, candidate ads, mentioning candidates, national party committees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buying Time, Professor Gibson, Professor Goldstein, Democratic Party, Federal Election Commission, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, New York, Supreme Court, Brennan Center, The Other Campaign, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee, United States, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Donald Green, Federal Election Campaign Act, Sierra Club, New Mexico, Professor La Raja, Chamber of Commerce, House of Representatives, Kenneth Goldstein, Michigan Eighth Congressional District, New Hampshire, New Jersey New!
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- Outside Money: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 1998 Congressional Elections by David B. Magleby on 10 pages
- Public Opinion by Carroll J. Glynn on 4 pages
- Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities by Professor Frank J. Sorauf on page 36, page 39, and page 113
- The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties (People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P) by John C. Green on page 64, page 94, and page 114
- Vital Statistics on Congress, 1999-2000 by Norman J. Ornstein on page 38, and page 63
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