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Campaign Finance Reform

The 1996 US election, which took in more than $260 million in soft money alone, was the most expensive in the nation's history. Long time advocates of campaign finance reform have rallied behind the revised McCain-Feingold proposal which, among other reforms, would ban soft money. However, recent Senate hearings have revealed that the bill does not have the necessary support to pass. The majority...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/1997/1007
Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook

This book, provided by the Brookings Institution, "combines reprints of key documents shaping the statutory and administrative framework for campaign finance regulation with original essays that guide readers over an exceedingly complex legal terrain." It discusses the history and current state of campaign finance law, constitutional restrictions, political action committees, soft money, issue...

https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-new-campaign-finance-sour...
Debate on Campaign Finance Reform Begins in Senate

On Monday, the United States Senate began its first serious debate on Campaign Finance Reform in the last decade as it took up the McCain-Feingold bill. Previous efforts to get this seven-year-old bill to the floor had been prevented by Senate procedural moves or by threat of a filibuster. However, the new 50/50 split between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, coupled with the momentum...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/2001/0320
McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill Poised for Passage

After two weeks of unusually open debate and hours of backroom maneuvering, the Senate will vote on Monday on the most sweeping overhaul of campaign finance law since 1976. Despite several ploys by opponents, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) have managed to keep their both their coalition and the bill largely intact. The latest hurdle was passed yesterday, when the Senate voted...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2001/0330
Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns: How to Foster Citizen Participation Through Small Donors and Volunteers

With all the talk about campaign finance reform that's been going on for decades, it might seem that there's no end in sight. That might be true, but several scholars at the Brookings Institution think they might have a set of solutions to this problem. This recent 66-page report was authored by Anthony J. Corrado, Michael J. Malbin, Thomas E. Mann, and Norman J. Ornstein and it was released in...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/reform-in-an-age-of-netwo...
The Campaign Finance Institute

With funding from the Carnegie Corporation, The Joyce Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Campaign Finance Institute is a non-profit institute affiliated with The George Washington University that "conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance." Along the top of the homepage, visitors will...

http://www.cfinst.org/