Analysis & Commentary
Voting Rights & Elections
GOP Census Politics
This op-ed argues that the Census Bureau’s attempt to use sampling to increase the accuracy of the 2000 census is a laudable effort.
Authored by: Richard R. Buery, Jr.
– 12/07/98
The Few Voters Who Set the Course
– 11/05/98
Turnouts Low? Hold a Lottery
– 11/03/98
Congress Fiddles While Parties Burn Campaign Finance Laws
While Democrats and Republicans on Capital Hill debate the merits of campaign finance reform, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party are busy at work in federal court seeking to undermine the last remaining vestiges of federal cam
– 06/29/98
Free TV Speech for Candidates
We own the airwaves. We, the public. Not GE, not Disney, not Westinghouse, and not Rupert Murdoch. But we lend them our airwaves for free, as trustees, in return for a pledge to serve the public interest.
– 06/08/98
The Incumbents’ Case for (Some) Campaign Finance Reform
The conventional wisdom is that genuine campaign finance reform is again doomed to defeat in the upcoming weeks, a victim of incumbents’ sense that the current rules serve their needs well.
– 05/25/98
The Doolittle/Delay Distortions of First Amendment Limits on Campaign Finance Reform
Clearing up John Doolittle and Tom DeLay’s misleading constitutional pronouncements on campaign finance reform.
Authored by: E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Deborah Goldberg
– 05/01/98
Senators: Look to the Teamsters
The Senate killed campaign finance reform last week. Chairman Fred Thompson has the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee once again looking for fund-raising misdeeds. Now the committee is looking into the relationship between the Teamsters and the Democr
– 10/13/97
Campaign Reform: The Hidden Killers
Prominent members of Congress recently executed a brilliant three-step strategy for killing campaign finance reform, all the while disguising themselves as reformers.
– 05/05/97
Campaigns Without a Human Face; Once There Were Volunteers and Door-Knockers; Now Only Money Matters
As a former campaign organizer, I recently appeared on some radio call-in shows to talk about political financing. The shows aired a common complaint—that politicians have become slaves to fund-raising and TV advertising.
– 10/27/96