Analysis & Commentary
Public Financing
New York Really Needs Public Campaign Financing
In April, Gov. David Paterson shook off pressure to create a system of public financing of campaigns, claiming that there’s just no money in the budget for it. Two recent examples of questionable fiscal management might shed light on why....
Authored by: Bethany Foster
– 06/02/08
Money and Politics: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Remarks from the Governor of Arizona at the Brennan Center’s first Living Constitution Lecture
Authored by: Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ)
– 04/10/08
Public Financing of Campaigns Off to a Great Start
Here in Connecticut, the system offers a chance for the state to shed its reputation as “Corrupticut” and instead provide a model of open and honest government.
Authored by: Bethany Foster and Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
– 10/10/07
Memo Affirming Constitutionality of Full Public Financing for Congressional Elections
The essential elements of full public financing systems are constitutional.
– 08/31/07
Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Regarding Presidential Public Financing
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes in support of the presidential public financing system.
– 01/26/07
Poll Results: Public Lacks Basic Knowledge of Presidential Election Campaign Fund
Low number of Americans using the $3 tax checkoff may be due to lack of knowledge, not lack of support for public financing.
– 04/25/06
The End of Influence
The Brennan Center’s Executive Director writes about the historical struggle for campaign finance reform.
Authored by: Michael Waldman
– 01/06/06
Maine Clean Elections
On November 5, 1999, Chief Judge D. Brock Hornby, of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, issued his much-anticipated decision in Daggett v. Webster, Civil No. 98-223-B-H.
– 11/06/03
Gov. Bush Can Show the Way on Campaign Spending
The announcement that Gov. George W. Bush raised an eye-popping $36.3 million in the first six months of 1999 has raised the question of whether he would forgo public funding and its accompanying voluntary spending limits for the presidential primary seas
– 07/13/99
An Independent Counsel We Can Live Without
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno seems to be torn over a choice between two investigations into campaign finance abuses in the 1996 presidential elections.
– 09/15/98