Issue Briefs

To read assessments of the District Court ruling on the McCain-Feingold soft mony ban, go to Democracy 21 or The Brookings Institution.

"Buying Time: The Fallacies of Campaign Reform and Our Advertising Laws" by Craig B. Holman, Ph.D. and Luke McLoughlin from the Brennan Center

"Reforming Reform" by Robert Dreyfuss in American Prospect

"The Wealth Primary: The Role of Big Money in the 2002 Congressional Primaries" from U.S. PIRG  -- report on impact of money on elections

"Checkbook Democracy", a special issue of the American Prospect -- special issue of American Prospect, summarize all individual articles

--Public Citizen summary of contribution limits put in place by McCain-Feingold, click here.

Influence of 527s-- --“Cramming for the Midterm: “527” Stealth PACs Raise at Least $115 million to Influence 2002 Congressional Elections”, a report from Public Citizen

--Brennan Center’s “Campaign Finance Reform: Fact & Fiction”

New Rules’ Primer on campaign financing:

Public Citizen’s Analysis of how the FEC is undermining the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 

Issues and Legal Precedent in State Campaign Finance Reform from Reclaim Democracy!

The materials in this section come in large part from Democracy 21, The Brookings Institution, Reclaim Democracy!, Public Citizen, The New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, The Brennan Center for Justice, The American Prospect, and U.S. PIRG.  ALICE would like to thank these groups for mapping the high road by reforming the campaign finance system in the states.

home | login | my profile | join our network | about us | contact us | forums | site map