“Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America”

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Democracy by the Wealthy: Campaign

Finance Reform as the Issue of Our Time

Eugene D. Mazo & Timothy K. Kuhner

 

 

Part I:         Defining the Problem            

Chapter 1:       The Third Coming of American Plutocracy: What

Campaign Finance Reformers Are Up Against

Timothy K. Kuhner

 

Chapter 2:       Liberty, Equality, Bribery, and Self-Government:

Reframing the Campaign Finance Debate

Deborah Hellman

 

Chapter 3:       Aligning Campaign Finance Law

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

 

Part II:       Proposed Solutions

 

Chapter 4:       Reforming Campaign Finance Reform:

The Future of Public Funding

Richard Briffault

 

Chapter 5:       Raising All of Our Voices for Democracy:

A Hybrid Public Funding Proposal

Adam Lioz

 

Chapter 6:       Reorienting Disclosure Debates

in a Post-Citizens United World

Katherine Shaw

 

Chapter 7:       Beyond Repair: FEC Reform

and Deadlock Deference

Daniel P. Tokaji

 

Chapter 8:       The People’s Pledge: Campaign Finance

Reform without Legal Reform

Ganesh Sitaraman

 

Chapter 9:       Super PAC Insurance: A Private Sector

Solution to Reform Campaign Finance

Nick Warshaw

 

Chapter 10:     Constraining and Channeling Corporate

Political Power in Trump’s America

Kent Greenfield

 

Chapter 11:     Reforming Lobbying

Maggie McKinley

 

Chapter 12:     Regulating Campaign Finance

through Legislative Recusal Rules

Eugene D. Mazo

 

Chapter 13:     Contributions and Corruption: Restoring

Aggregate Limits in the States

Michael D. Gilbert

 

Chapter 14:     Developing Better Empirical Evidence

for Future Campaign Finance Cases

Brent Ferguson & Chisun Lee

 

Chapter 15:     Fixing the Supreme Court’s Mistake: The

Case for the Twenty-Eighth Amendment

Ronald A. Fein

 

 

Part III:      Inspiration from Abroad

 

Chapter 16:     The Repudiation of Buckley v. Valeo

  1. D. Ewing

 

Chapter 17:     Equal Participation and Campaign Finance

Yasmin Dawood

 

Chapter 18:     Political Finance and Political Equality:

Lessons from Europe

Óscar Sánchez Muñoz

 

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