Jim Gardner has published Forcing States to Be Free: The Emerging Constitutional Guarantee of Radical Democracy, 35 Connecticut Law Review 1467 (2003). The article is followed by commentaries by Nate Persily, Burt Neuborne, Rick Pildes, and Jeremy Paul. I have not yet read the exchange, but it promises to be important and interesting.
Peter Francia and Paul S. Herrnson have published The Impact of Public Finance Laws on Fundraising in State Legislative Elections, 31 American Politics Research 520 (2003). According to the abstract, the authors find that “candidates who accepted full public financing spent less time raising money than other candidates, including those who accept partial public financing.”