Showing posts with label campaign finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaign finance. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Faculty Ideology and Campaign Contributions

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Many posts have discussed the politics of colleges and universities in the United States . A release from FIRE : A new study commissio...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Lobby Spending and Campaign Spending Are Different

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Many   posts  have  discussed   lobbying ,  " shadow lobbying ," " unlobbying ," and " non-lobbying lobbying ....
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The Problem with Judicial Elections

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Many  posts have  discusse d the  independence  of the  judiciary .   Megan O’Matz at Pro Publica: Officially the [Wisconsin] Supreme Court ...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Money v. Moderation

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A number of posts have discussed compromise and polarization . John Farmer, Jr. at The Messenger : The development of social media platfo...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Shady Fundraising

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Many posts have discussed campaign finance . David A. Fahrenthold and Tiff Fehr at NYT: A group of conservative operatives using sophist...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Open Society Policy Center

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Brian Schwartz at CNBC: A nonprofit financed by billionaire George Soros quietly donated $140 million to advocacy organizations and ballot ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Campaign Finance in the 2022 Midterm

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 Open Secrets: The total cost of 2022 midterm elections is projected to exceed $9.3 billion, according to an early, conservative estimate b...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Madison and Campaign Finance Reform

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Michael J. Malbin * | 23.5 | Article | Citation: Michael J. Malbin, A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Normals

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 Axios Finish Line: Three stats we find reassuring: 75% of people in the U.S. never tweet. On an average weeknight in January, just 1% of ...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

Dark Money, Philanthropy, and Cynicism

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Many posts have discussed the political uses of philanthropy .  Theodore Schleifer at Puck: Neither party will admit it, but the line bet...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Foreign Influence in the 2020 Election

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Anna Massoglia at Open Secrets : More than $33.5 million in individual political contributions came from foreign agents and lobbyists durin...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

The Politics of Place

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Federalist 57 : "THE THIRD charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be taken from that class of citizens which w...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Drug Money and State Legislators

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 Lev Facher at STAT: In the last two years, at least 2,467 state legislators — over one-third of all state lawmakers nationwide — used phar...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Women Candidates in 2020

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  Stacy Montemayor and Pete Quist, National Institute on Money in Politics; Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Grace Haley, Center for Responsive Poli...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Drug Money

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   Lev Facher at STAT: Well over one-quarter of all state lawmakers nationwide have accepted money from the pharmaceutical industry since t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Drug Company Contributions 2020

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Lev Facher at STAT: The world’s biggest drug makers and their trade groups have cut checks to 356 lawmakers ahead of this year’s election...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Police Unions

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 Noam Scheiber, Farah Stockman and J. David Goodman at NYT: Over the past five years, as demands for reform have mounted in the aftermath ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Tracking Political Money

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Many posts have discussed campaign finance , state legislatures , and congressional elections . From the National Institute on Money i...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Research, Fall 2019

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Watch this clip from  The Wire .  It is the best description of research, ever. The Internet Archive -- if there is a broken link to what...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

FEC Troubles

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Dave Levinthal at the Center for Public Integrity reports on the Federal Election Commission .  An internal turf war has led to a vacancy in...