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Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State & Local Campaign Finance Laws (2008 Revised Edition)

This guide offers both practical tips and legal analysis for drafters of campaign finance reform bills or initiatives—those who want to stay within current constitutional constraints and those who want to test those limits.
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- May 6, 2004
The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2002

The threat to fair and impartial courts is spreading to more states, and a recent Supreme Court decision could usher in a new era of special-interest influence over the courts that protect our rights.
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- May 6, 2004
Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women & Families

Federal and state drug laws and policies over the past twenty years have had specific, devastating, and disparate effects on women, and particularly on women of color and low-income women.
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- November 4, 2004
Purged!

Nearly 5 million American citizens, two percent of the voting-age population, have lost the fundamental right to participate in our political process.
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- October 1, 2004
Living Wage Laws & Communities

Living wage laws have improved economic development in their communities and cost much less to implement than most analysts initially expected. In the first study of its kind, researchers interviewed government officials about living wage laws and costs to cities and counties.
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- November 1, 2003
The New Politics of Judicial Elections

The year 2000 signaled a dangerous turning point for America’s courts. This report documents the growing, systematic, and unprecedented infusion of big money and special interest pressure into the election of Supreme Court justices across the country.
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- February 14, 2002
Public Funding of Judicial Elections: Financing Campaigns for Fair and Impartial Courts

Part of the Judicial Independence Series, this paper makes the case for public financing of judicial elections.
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- January 1, 2002
Regulating Interest Group Activity in Judicial Elections

This paper describes the factual background and legal framework for mandatory reporting of interest group spending in judicial elections.
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- January 1, 2002
Freeing Candidate Speech in Judicial Elections: Or How Safe Are Loose Canons?

We want meaningful information from judicial candidates and, at the same time, we don’t want them telling us anything that would impair their impartiality as judges.
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- January 1, 2001
The End of Limits on Money in Politics

Soft money now comprises the largest share of party spending on television ads in federal elections.
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- December 31, 2001

Suggested Results

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Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State & Local Campaign Finance Laws (2008 Revised Edition)

The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2002

Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women & Families

Purged!

Living Wage Laws & Communities

The New Politics of Judicial Elections

Public Funding of Judicial Elections: Financing Campaigns for Fair and Impartial Courts

Regulating Interest Group Activity in Judicial Elections

Freeing Candidate Speech in Judicial Elections: Or How Safe Are Loose Canons?

The End of Limits on Money in Politics

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Informed citizens are democracy’s best defense