IFS Research

The 2008 election cycle was the first in Connecticut where candidates for state legislature could choose to accept taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, replacing ...

On March 31, 2009, Senators Arlen Specter (DPa.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) introduced almost identical bills in the ...

In 2007, the state of New Jersey conducted its second experiment with taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by advocates of such programs

Supporters of campaign finance regulation regularly assert that contributions to political candidates need to be limited in order to reduce corruption by elected officials, and the lower the ...

Critics of taxpayer-funded political campaigns frequently justify their opposition in part on the idea that such programs increase government spending, add to the total tax burden on citizens, ...

In 2007, the state of New Jersey conducted its second experiment with taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by advocates of such programs

On March 28, 2008, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC) released the 2007 Fair and Clean Elections Report, nearly 100 pages in ...

Maine and Arizona are currently the only two states that have statewide programs of taxpayer-funded political campaigns for state legislative campaigns, sometimes called “clean election” programs. Seeking to replace ...

CCP study on the effect of contribution limits on Philadelphia's 2007 mayoral race.

HAVING LONG DEFENDED the First Amendment, I considered it a great privilege to have been one of the lawyers who argued Buckley v. Valeo on behalf of ...