“Don’t expect campaign finance reform to reduce polarization”
Mann and Corrado respond to La Raja and Schaffner.
Category Archives: political parties
“Bad Readers: The judges who ruled against Obamacare are following Scalia down a terrible path of interpretation.”
I have written this new Jurisprudence essay for Slate. It begins:
Unless you are a lawyer or a glutton for punishment, you probably want to avoid reading the new D.C. Circuit and 4th Circuit opinions reaching conflicting results on the… Continue reading
“Former Top Aide to Governor Arnold Schwarznegger Admits Top-Two Injures Independent Candidates”
“End Partisan Primaries, Save America”
Sen. Schumer endorses Top-Two in NYT oped. The political science does not (at least not yet) seem to support what Sen. Schumer thinks about the effects of top two, however.
“Leadership war stymies Senate mission”
Paul Kane for WaPo:
The Senate went three months this spring without voting on a single legislative amendment, the nitty-gritty kind of work usually at the heart of congressional lawmaking. So few bills have been approved this year, and so… Continue reading
“The Conversation: Dissecting a ‘no party preference’ campaign in California”
SacBee: “Two seasoned California campaign strategists, one a Republican and one a Democrat, who advised a “no party prefence” candidate running for secretary of state, discuss the campaign.”
Sragow: Dan didn’t make it into the general election for three… Continue reading
“Rumors of Bipartisanship’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated”
“More on the Mann-Corrado Brookings Paper: the Resistance to Campaign Finance Change as a Response to Polarization”
“Understanding and Misunderstanding the Political Parties—and the Question of Whether They Understand Themselves”
“Why the GOP is Holding Its Convention Early”
Byron Tau reports for Politico. (It’s about the campaign $)
“Koch Brothers group targets Iowa politics”
Des Moines Register/USA Today:
The main political branch of the conservative Koch brothers’ empire is mounting a full-scale mobilization to become a transformative political power in Iowa, the state where the battle for the presidency begins.
Americans for Prosperity… Continue reading
“House quietly approved amendment to help state GOP”
Boston Globe: “The House Republican leadership, with the cooperation of Democratic leaders, quietly attached an amendment to an election law bill last month that would allow the cash-strapped state GOP party to raise unlimited donations to pay for an… Continue reading