Tag Archives: Campaign finance

The Future of the Party and Campaign Finance — A Response to Bob Bauer

September 22, 2015, 1:04 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, election law and constitutional law, guest blogging election law scholarship, political partiesCampaign finance, political partiesHeather Gerken

(with Joey Fishkin, University of Texas Law School) Bob Bauer just offered a thoughtful and engaging commentary on our work and a new report by the Brennan Center, both focused on the relationship between the political parties and campaign finance.… Continue reading

Citizens United and the Future of the American Political Party

September 16, 2015, 11:22 amcampaign finance, campaigns, election law and constitutional law, political parties, UncategorizedCampaign finance, Citizens United, political partiesHeather Gerken

With Joey Fishkin, University of Texas Law School The Brennan Center has just released a new report on the future of campaign finance. There are going to be a lot of reports like these during the next few years as… Continue reading

Whose party is it anyway?

June 16, 2015, 1:43 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, election law and constitutional law, political parties, UncategorizedCampaign finance, political parties, shadow partiesHeather Gerken

Coauthored with Joseph Fishkin, University of Texas Law School In yesterday’s post, we described how major functions once performed by official party organizations are migrating instead to what we call shadow parties—groups situated outside the official party apparatus, but clearly… Continue reading

A war within the Republican party?

June 15, 2015, 10:09 amcampaign finance, campaigns, election law and constitutional law, political parties, UncategorizedCampaign finance, political parties, shadow partiesHeather Gerken

Coauthored with Joseph Fishkin, University of Texas Law School A recent story perfectly embodied the central puzzle in a paper that we recently published in the Supreme Court Review. The story tells about the war between the Koch brothers… Continue reading

The Political Thriller Published by the Moritz College of Law

June 18, 2014, 6:07 amcampaign finance, UncategorizedCampaign finance, dark money, outside spending, soft moneyHeather Gerken

Serious empirical research rarely reads like a political thriller, but “The New Soft Money: Outside Spending in Congressional Elections” — written by Dan Tokaji and Renata Strause* and published by Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law — is one of… Continue reading

Nondisclosure Disclosure: Giving Lawmakers an Excuse to Ignore the Hard Questions

April 8, 2014, 8:03 amcampaign financeBob Bauer, Campaign finance, disclosure, money and politicsHeather Gerken

Authored by Heather Gerken, Wade Gibson, and Webb Lyons On Monday, Bob Bauer offered a characteristically thoughtful and generous response to a “nondisclosure disclosure” proposal that we pitched in the Washington Post last week. The proposal was a simple one.… Continue reading