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Campaign Finance Update

Compiled by Marian G. Rogers, February 2006

Election law reform is a topic of perennial interest to both federal and state governments. Most revisions involve campaign finance reform: contribution limits, lobbying regulations, disclosure requirements, state grants to candidates, and the newest type of public financing - "Clean Elections". Wisconsin's first attempt to regulate election practices occurred with enactment of Chapter 385, Laws of 1897. This bibliography provides background as well as state, federal, and Wisconsin reforms. Both print and electronic resources are included.

General Information

"Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" / U.S. Federal Election Commission.
www.fec.gov/pages/bcra/bcra_update.shtml

[Campaign Finance: CRS Issue Briefs] / U.S. Congressional Research Service. 2005. 2 pts. (325.52/X3)

pt.1 Campaign Finance. Updated June 27, 2005.
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/35082.pdf
pt.2 Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money. Updated January 10, 2005. http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/41145.pdf

"Campaign Finance Law, 2002 - A Summary of State Campaign Finance Laws with Quick Reference Charts" / U.S. Federal Election Commission. www.fec.gov/pubrec/cfl/cfl02/cfl02.shtml

Campaign Finance Reform / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, September 1999. (Tap the Power) A bibliography. www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/pubs/ttp/ttp-9-99.html

Campaign Finance Reform: Beyond the Basics / Anthony Corrado. 2000. (325.52/C81) Provides an overview of campaign finance law and explains options for reform.

"Campaign Finance Showdown: Are Limits on `Soft Money' and `Issue Ads' Valid?" / Congressional Quarterly, Inc., CQ Researcher, November 22, 2002, v.12, no.41. (325.52/C761b)

"Campaign Financing and Lobbying Disclosure: White Paper Series" / New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. www.elec.state.nj.us/AboutELEC/whitepapers.htm

Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election Directory, 2005 / U.S. Federal Election Commission. (325.52/X9/2005) www.fec.gov/pubrec/cfsdd/cfsdd.shtml#Contents

Do Public Funding Programs Enhance Electoral Competition? / Kenneth R. Mayer [et al.]. U.W. Madison, Department of Political Science. Updated March 2005. (325.52/W7h)
http://campfin.polisci.wisc.edu/Wisc%20Camp%20Fin%20Proj%20-%20Public%20Funding%20and%20Competition.pdf

Dollars and Democracy: A Blueprint for Campaign Finance Reform / The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Special Commission on Campaign Finance Reform. 2000. (325.52/As7) A two-year study with recommendations for reform.

"Federal Campaign Finance Laws" / U.S. Federal Election Commission. www.fec.gov/law/feca/feca.shtml

Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform Law in the States / David Schultz, ed. 2002. (325.52/Sch8)

The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook / Anthony Corrado [et al.]. Brookings Institution. 2005. (325.52/B79a)

Overview of States' Public Campaign Financing Programs / Connecticut Office of Legislative Research. August 2005. (325.52/C76) www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-R-0607.htm

"PACronyms" / U.S. Federal Election Commission. November 2005. Acronyms, abbreviations, etc. of federal political action committees. www.fec.gov/pubrec/pacronyms/pacronyms.shtml

Political Money - Deregulating American Politics: Selected Writings on Campaign Finance Reform / Annelise Anderson, ed., Hoover Institution. 2000. Includes a chapter by Russell Feingold. www.campaignfinancesite.org/book/html/contents.html

Public Funding for Political Candidates in Maine and Arizona: a General Accountability [sic] Office Report [GAO-03-453] / Connecticut Office of Legislative Research. February 2005. www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-R-0191.htm

GAO-03-453: www.gao.gov/new.items/d03453.pdf

Subsidizing Political Campaigns: the Varieties & Values of Public Financing / Elizabeth Daniel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. 2000. (325.52/N48b) www.brennancenter.org/resources/cfr/cfr6.pdf

Survey of Research on the Impact of Public Financing / Connecticut Office of Legislative Research. August 2005. www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-R-0620.htm

Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State and Local Campaign Finance Laws / Deborah Goldberg, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. 2004. (325.52/N48a)
www.brennancenter.org/programs/prog_ht_manual.html

Wisconsin

Buckley v. Valeo and Wisconsin's Campaign Finance Law / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. 1976. (Informational Bulletin 76-7). (325.52/W7a)

Campaign Donations and Public-Private Contracts: Wisconsin, 1991-2000 / Roland Zullo, University of Michigan, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. 2003. (325.52/M5)
www.ilir.umich.edu/publications/donationsandcontracts.pdf

Campaign Finance Reform / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. 2002. (Budget Brief 02-1). (325.52/W7a2) Two-page summary of major changes made by 2001 Wisconsin Act 109. www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/pubs/budbriefs/02bb1.pdf

Campaign Financing in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. 2001. (Wisconsin Brief 01-9). (325.52/W7a1) An overview of historical and current finance regulations. www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/pubs/wb/01wb9.pdf

Grading State Disclosure, 2005: Wisconsin / Campaign Disclosure Project. October 26, 2005. (325.52/C15) www.campaigndisclosure.org/gradingstate/wi.html

[Papers of the Wisconsin Governor's Study Committee on Campaign Finance] / 1973-74. 4pts. (Gov/CampFin) (noncirculating) Includes final report, summary, working paper, and public participation poll data.

Public Financing of Campaigns in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau. (Informational paper no. 89) (325.52/ W7L/2005) Focus is on the Wisconsin Election Campaign Fund. www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/Informationalpapers/89.pdf

Report / Wisconsin Governor's Blue-Ribbon Commission on Campaign Finance Reform. 1997. 2pts. (325.52/W7e2)

"State at a Glance: Wisconsin, 2004" / Institute on Money in State Politics. Election summary, average dollars, top contributors, and breakdowns by party and economic sector. www.followthemoney.org/database/state_overview.phtml?si=200448

U.S. Supreme Court Case on Campaign Finance: McConnell v. FEC / Wisconsin Legislative Council. 2003. (Legal Memorandum LM-2003-6) (325.52/W7d4) Description of the decision re "soft money" and "electioneering communications." www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lc/jlc03/LM_2003_6.pdf

Wisconsin's Campaign Finance Law Annotated: A Legislative History of Changes in the Law Since Its Enactment in 1911 / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. 1974. (Wisconsin Brief 74-1). (325.52/W7g)

Related Web Sites

www.brennancenter.org/resources/cfr/index.html - Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Campaign Finance Reform Series.

www.campaigndisclosure.org/ - Campaign Disclosure Project. "A project of the UCLA School of Law, the Center for Governmental Studies, and the California Voter Foundation, supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts."

www.cato.org/research/crg/index.html - Cato Institute, Center for Representative Government. "Government and Politics" reading lists on various topics, including campaign finance.

www.stateaction.org/issues/issue.cfm/issue/CleanElections.xml - Center for Policy Alternatives. "Clean Elections."

www.opensecrets.org/basics/links/state.asp - Center for Responsive Politics. "Campaign Finance Links; State Resources."

www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=191979 - Common Cause. "Money in Politics."

www.campaignfinancesite.org/ - Hoover Institution.

www.followthemoney.org - The Institute on Money in State Politics. "Follow the Money: the Nation's Most Complete Resource for Information on Money in State Politics."

www.lwv.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home - League of Women Voters.

www.lii.org/pub/subtopic/776 - "Librarians' Internet Index: Websites You Can Trust; Campaign Funds."

http://ncsl.org/programs/legman/about/campfin.htm - National Conference of State Legislatures, Campaign Finance.

www.publiccampaign.org/states/index.htm - Public Campaign. "Clean Money, Clean Elections in the States!"

www.fec.gov/ - U.S. Federal Election Commission. "Administering and Enforcing Federal Campaign Finance Laws."

http://campfin.polisci.wisc.edu/Index.asp - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Political Science. "Wisconsin Campaign Finance Project." Links, data, and publications.

www.wisdc.org/ - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

http://ethics.state.wi.us/ - Wisconsin Ethics Board.

http://elections.state.wi.us/ - Wisconsin State Elections Board.

Clippings

(Noncirculating; available for use in the library; clippings prior to 1981 are on microfiche)

Campaign finance in Wisconsin (325.52/W7z)
Campaign finance in the U.S. and other states (325.52/Z)


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