Presidential Financing
New CFI Working Paper
Small Donors, Large Donors and the Internet: The Case for Public Financing after Obama
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“The public funding system for presidential elections collapsed in 2008. The policy question for the future will be whether to revive it at
all and, if so, how.” So begins this working paper by CFI’s Executive Director, Michael J. Malbin, who is also a professor of political
science at the University at Albany, SUNY. In the paper, Malbin documents the failures of spending limits and argues that the system needs a redesign to promote competition,
candidate emergence and public participation. He discusses potential public funding proposals aiming to do that. The paper
also presents new data about the timing of small and large donors in the election of 2008. (April 22, 2009)
See Previous Presidential reports here.
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Financing 2008
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Interest Groups / Soft Money
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Senate Electronic Disclosure
The Senate Campaign Disclosure Disparity Act (S. 482) would require Senate candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically.
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