Today: Webcast @UCILaw of #PlutocratsUnited Talk with Chemerinsky Commentary
Here’s the livestream for this event at 4 pm today.
I’ll be talking about my new book, Plutocrats United, with commentary from UCI Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Tune in!
Category Archives: Plutocrats United
“Ask the Author: Richard L. Hasen”
Kate Ackley interviewed me for CQ Weekly ($):
In his new book, “Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections,” law professor Richard L. Hasen of the University of California, Irvine, calls President Barack Obama… Continue reading
“All the money in the world isn’t buying votes this primary season”
Noah Bierman for the LAT:
Money may yet prevail in this year’s presidential election, but the failure so far of big donors to propel candidates to the top of the heap has shown the limitations of even huge stockpiles… Continue reading
“Claims about Corruption in the Case for Political Equality”
Bauer:
There is a shift here to more careful claims about what money buys and when: that it counts for more in some races than in others; that it is not all that effective if the candidate is a… Continue reading
“Enough about our ‘corrupt campaign finance system’ already. Let’s talk equality.”
Lee Drutman at Vox offers a generous review of my book, Plutocrats United:
In reading Plutocrats United, I found myself doing a lot of nodding to myself. I am on board with Hasen — equality is a much more sensible… Continue reading
Poster for Plutocrats United Event at Harvard Feb. 19
Here.
“Does Big Money Still Matter? You Bet It Does”
Eliza Newlin Carney in TAP:
Good-government advocates are “oblivious to the failure of ‘big money’ to dictate the race,” wrote Bradley Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, in a Wall Street Journal commentary headlined “That’s Odd, ‘Big Money’… Continue reading
“Money and Politics in Polarized Times”
I have written this post for Yale Books Unbound. A snippet:
Those seeing this campaign money-polarization connection argue that to decrease political polarization, we need to free political parties to raise more money from wealthy donors. Further, public financing plans… Continue reading
Doing Live Chat @TPM at 12 Eastern About Plutocrats United, Election Law Questions
“Redistributing, Not Limiting, Money in Politics”
Great discussion with Brian Lehrer on WNYC about Plutocrats United. Listen!
Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the … Continue reading
Plutocrats United DC Event with Trevor Potter on May 5
We have now rescheduled the Plutocrats United event with commentary by Trevor Potter for May 5 at the UCDC Center in Washington DC. The event is co-sponsored by the Campaign Legal Center, American Constitution Society, and the University of California… Continue reading
“Wholly Foreign to the First Amendment”?: Political Inequality Forty Years After Buckley v. Valeo
Looking forward to this Plutocrats United-related event:
February 18, 4:30-5:30 PM, University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Silverman Hall 240A
Featuring:
Rick Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine… Continue reading
“Political Money: New Best-Selling Book Genre?”
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP:
Books about who pays for American elections rarely hit the bestseller lists, but a rash of new titles tackling the once-obscure topic of campaign financing signals that publishers now regard political money as popular fare.… Continue reading
“Getting Big Money Out of Politics”
I talked Plutocrats United with Radio Boston. Listen.