Money, politics, and the first amendment : fifty years of Supreme Court decisions and campaign finance reforms /
Money in political campaigns is a subject of endless current interest and enormous consequence for American democracy. Beginning in 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court established a framework for public campaign regulation that declared that money constitutes "speech" and that the...
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Table of Contents:
- Opening Dialogue / Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
- Part I. Introduction to the Supreme Court: Decisions on Campaign Finance Regulation
- 1. Buckley v. Valeo's Dubious yet Durable Contribution-Expenditure Distinction / Richard Briffault
- 2. How Buckley v. Valeo Led Us Astray / Paul M. Smith
- Part II. Critiques and a Defense of the Major Decisions
- 3. Getting It Wrong: The Supreme Court and Campaign Finance / Erwin Chemerinsky and Alex Chemerinsky
- 4. Citizens United: Cracks in the Façade / Diane P. Wood
- 5. A Defense of Buckley v. Valeoand Citizens United v. FEC / Floyd Abrams
- Part III. Campaign Finance and Race
- 6. Race and Campaign Finance Deregulation / Abby K. Wood
- Part IV. Recommendations for Legislation on Campaign Finance Reform
- 7. Money Talks, Dark Money Whispers: How Anonymous, Unlimited Political Spending Is Corrupting American Democracy / Sheldon Whitehouse
- 8. Elections in the Age of A.I. / Amy Klobuchar and Stephen Spaulding
- Part V. Arguments Interpreting The "Corruption" Rationale
- 9. Corruption, Campaign Finance, and Criminal Law: Buckley's Legacy / Deborah Hellman
- 10. Campaign Finance and "Real" Corruption / Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos
- 11. Buckley at 50: By What Right? / Lawrence Lessig
- Part VI. The Effect of Campaign Finance: On Political Institutions
- 12. Buckley v. Valeo: Doctrinal Difficulties and Institutional Failure / Samuel Issacharoff
- 13. Campaign Finance and Political Polarization / Richard H. Pildes
- 14. Party Campaign Finance: From FECA To Modern Hyperpartisanship / Michael S. Kang
- 15. Plutocratic Democracy, Elon Musk, and the Limits of Campaign Finance Reform / Farris Peale and Guy-Uriel E. Charles
- Part VII. The Relationship Between Campaign Finance and the State of American Democracy
- 16. A Political Question?: Partisan Gerrymandering, Campaign Finance Regulation, and the Supreme Court / David A. Strauss
- 17. Without Buckley, Would American Democracy Really Be All That Different? / Pamela S. Karlan
- 18. Campaign Finance and Contemporary Political Dysfunction / Nathaniel Persily
- Part VIII. A Comparative Approach to Campaign Finance
- 19. Leveling The Playing Field: Insights from Comparative Constitutional Law / Mark Tushnet
- Closing Statement / Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone.