Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
Abstract
Our existing federal campaign finance system – the product of Watergate Era legislation and the Supreme Court's 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo – is in a state of disarray. The system is no longer capable of accomplishing the goals pursued by Congress and embraced by the Court a quarter-century ago: full disclosure of the sources of campaign money; limitations on large contributions by individuals; prohibitions on the use of corporate and union treasury funds; and voluntary, partial public funding, with spending limits, in the Presidential election. Indeed, the current law may actually have negative consequences, with unindexed contribution limits encouraging evasion, driving up the burdens of fundraising, providing a major role for organized interest groups and bundlers, and placing a premium on the personal wealth of candidates.
Disciplines
Election Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Richard Briffault,
Public Funding and Democratic Elections,
148
U. Pa. L. Rev.
563
(1999).
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