Report

• Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns: How to Foster Citizen Participation Through Small Donors and Volunteers

  Apr 22, 2010 - A joint project of the Campaign Finance Institute, American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution released a major new report, "Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns: How to Foster Citizen Participation Through Small Donors and Volunteers." 

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• Closing the Gap: State Party Finances Four Years After BCRA

  Oct 02, 2007 - To determine how the state parties fared in the first mid-term elections since BCRA, the National Institute on Money in State Politics analyzed the money candidates raised and spent during the 2006 election cycle and compared it to their finances during the 2002 mid-term election cycle, before BCRA was in effect.

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• The Ups and Downs of Small and Large Donors

  Jun 18, 2007 - An analysis of pre- and post-BCRA contributions to federal parties and candidates, 1999-2006, by the Campaign Finance Institute's Participation Project.

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• Soft Money in the 2006 Election and the Outlook for 2008: The Changing Nonprofits Landscape

  Apr 10, 2007 - Study analyzes the broad array of nonprofits active in the 2006 election. It compares the groups' activities with those undertaken in 2002 and 2004, and assesses how the changing legal and political environment affected the groups' operations in '06 and might do so in '08.

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• War Games: Issues and Resources in the Battle for Control of Congress

  Feb 07, 2007 - Intense conflicts have become a significant part of every election cycle since 1994, as parties and groups have battled to secure control of Congress.

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• Declining Fortunes: State Party Finances, 2004

  Sep 27, 2005 - Report on contributions to state party committees.

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• Shifting Gears: State Party Strategies Post-BCRA

  Sep 27, 2005 - An in-depth analysis of how fundraising has changed post-McCain-Feingold Act.

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• The Battle For The Buckeye State

  Oct 19, 2004 - A study of political party finances in Ohio from the Institute on Money in State Politics.

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• Election Reform Briefing: The Business of Elections

  Aug 11, 2004 - Electionline.org reports on the political activities of voting machine companies.

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• The Campaign Finance Guide

  Aug 06, 2004 - This Guide provides citizens, candidates, political organizations and the news media with a brief overview of current federal campaign finance laws. It summarizes the rules governing the financing of federal political activities and describes how the laws are enforced.

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• The Campaign Media Guide

  Jul 15, 2004 - A report by the Campaign Legal Center that provides an overview of the rights and obligations of candidates and broadcasters, and guidelines on how to monitor and affect political discourse during the 2004 election season. 

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• Juice Worth the Squeeze (Summer 2004 Trust Magazine article)

  Jul 01, 2004 - USA Today called the Trusts a "winner" when the U.S. Supreme Court backed campaign finance reform. Here's a reformer's point of view.

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• Life Before BCRA: Soft Money at the State Level in the 2000 and 2002 Election Cycles

  Dec 01, 2003 - This study by The Institute on Money and State Politics shows that Democratic and Republican state political party committees raised $1 billion of soft money over a four-year period covering the 2000 and 2002 election cycles, with Florida leading all states by a wide margin.

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• Passing the Bucks: Money Games that Political Parties Play

  Sep 30, 2003 - This study documents a pattern of trades and transfers between the national party committees and state party committees in 13 selected states over three election cycles.

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• Participation, Competition, Engagement: Reviving and Improving Public Funding

  Sep 01, 2003 - With the Republican President and two major Democratic presidential candidates rejecting, or thinking of rejecting, public financing for their primary campaigns, the post-Watergate system of financing presidential nominations is in grave jeopardy. But after a year of study, a blue ribbon Campaign Finance Institute Task Force has concluded that the system should be saved and improved.

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• Website Woes: The Federal Non-System for Campaign Finance Disclosure

  Oct 01, 2002 - A comprehensive study of Internet-based federal campaign finance disclosure concludes that the system “is riddled with problems.”

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• Television Advertising and McCain-Feingold

  Jun 01, 2002 - This paper uses a unique source of data about television commercials to examine some of the most important issues raised in connection to this proposal.

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