Democracy by the People : Reforming Campaign Finance in America (Paperback)

Introduction: democracy by the wealthy: campaign finance reform as the issue of our time Timothy K. Kuhner and Eugene D. Mazo; Part I. Defining the Problem: 1. The third coming of American plutocracy: what campaign finance reformers are up against Timothy K. Kuhner; 2. Liberty, equality, bribery, and self-government: reframing the campaign finance debate Deborah Hellman; 3. Aligning campaign finance law Nicholas Stephanopoulos; Part II. Proposed Solutions: 4. Reforming campaign finance reform: the future of public funding Richard Briffault; 5. Raising all of our voices for democracy: a hybrid public funding proposal Adam Lioz; 6. Reorienting disclosure debates in a post-Citizens United world Katherine Shaw; 7. Beyond repair: FEC reform and deadlock deference Daniel P. Tokaji; 8. The People's Pledge: campaign finance reform without legal reform Ganesh Sitaraman; 9. Super PAC insurance: a private sector solution to reform campaign finance Nick Warshaw; 10. Constraining and channeling corporate political power in Trump's America Kent Greenfield; 11. Reforming lobbying Maggie McKinley; 12. Regulating campaign finance through legislative recusal rules Eugene D. Mazo; 13. Contributions and corruption: restoring aggregate limits in the States Michael D. Gilbert; 14. Developing better empirical evidence for future campaign finance cases Brent Ferguson and Chisun Lee; 15. Fixing the Supreme Court's mistake: the case for the twenty-eighth Amendment Ronald A. Fein; Part III. Inspiration from Abroad: 16. The repudiation of Buckley v. Valeo K. D. Ewing; 17. Equal participation and campaign finance Yasmin Dawood; 18. Political finance and political equality: lessons from Europe Oscar Sanchez Munoz.