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CFI Events
Events The Campaign Finance Institute, hosts a series of luncheon seminar/discussion forums designed to foster thoughtful, longer-term conversations that cut across party lines. The series features the latest scholarly research relating to bills before Congress. Material from these events is now available online in the form of streaming video, as well as, transcripts, articles, charts, tables and slides - see below for links.

Event Archive

October 26, 2006Money in the Closing Days of Election '06
July 19, 2006Nonprofit Interest Groups' Election Activities And Federal Campaign Finance Policy
March 06, 2006Small Donors, Online Donors And First-Timers In The Presidential Election Of 2004
June 23, 2005β€œThe β€˜527’ Fairness Act of 2005” - Pros and Cons
January 14, 2005The Election after Reform: Money & Politics after the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
July 07, 2004Deconstructing National Party Conventions and Their Financing. Release of CFI study "The $100 Million Exemption: Soft Money and the 2004 National Party Conventions"
February 27, 2004Pre-super Tuesday CFI Forum Money and Politics in the 2004 Primaries
September 22, 2003Final Report of the Task Force on Financing Presidential Nominations
January 31, 2003Public Hearing On Presidential Nomination Financing
January 09, 2003Politics After The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
September 09, 2002Do the FEC's Soft Money Regulations Undermine the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?
July 18, 2002CFI Announces Blue Ribbon Task Force to study the Presidential nomination process. McConnell v. FEC: A Briefing From Both Sides -- Trevor Potter and James Bopp.
April 19, 2002New Interest Group Strategies -- A preview of Post McCain-Feingold Politics?
March 08, 2002Voter Mobilization Effort in the 2000 Elections. Voter Mobilization Effort in the 2000 Elections.
December 07, 2001Television Advertising in the 2000 Elections: Analyses of Data from the Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG)
November 02, 2001Party Efforts in 2000
May 17, 2001Political Parties Under McCain-Feingold
January 11, 2001How Party Soft money was Spent in 2000
November 13, 2000Post Election Key Race Forum
June 16, 2000CFI Inauguaral Event