Charlie White Stays Free Pending Appeal
The latest from Indiana.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Election Law Blog Mini-Symposium on Upcoming Bauer-Ginsberg Report
According to a statement issued by the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA, or more colloquially, Bauer-Ginsberg for its chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg), the Commission is expected to release its report some time in January.
When it comes… Continue reading
“Listeners Are Entitled to Know by Whom They Are Being Persuaded”
“Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying”
John M. De Figueiredo and Brian Richter have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science). Here is the abstract:
This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It… Continue reading
Demos President Rapoport to Head Common Cause
“Political Groups Aim Early Attacks At New Hampshire Senator”
Peter Overby on c4s playing early in New Hampshire.
“Conservative Group to Air Ads Attacking Health Law in Michigan and Iowa”
“Campaign Finance, Polarization and the Case of the Lost Car Keys”
“Why Campaign Finance Laws Make Things Worse”
Jonathan Bernstein writes for Bloomberg View.
“Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform”
Barry Burden, David Canon, Ken Mayer and Donald Moynihan have written this article for AJPS. Here is the abstract:
State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of… Continue reading
“New law gives vote to some 17 year olds”
News from Edwardsville, IL.
“Gillespie Senate run tests stigma of ‘lobbyist’ label”
“Ohio to Improve Voter Rolls, Expand Outreach – Guess the Plaintiff!”
A ChapinBlog.
Spoiler alert: It’s True the Vote.
Campaign Finance Related Items in Omnibus Spending Bill
According to “The Fix:”
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS
The legislation prohibits any funding to require that contractors bidding for federal contracts disclose campaign contributions. The Obama administration has openly flirted with issuing executive orders that would require contractors to provide… Continue reading