The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook

The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook has been integrated with the award-winning and frequently visited Brookings website to provide a timely, interactive tool for policymakers, journalists, and scholars. Four of the country's leading experts on campaign finance reform have contributed original essays on important facets of finance law and administration. The essays are accompanied by a list of corresponding documents available on the website.

The book offers a thorough overview and analysis of this highly controversial issue, including the history of campaign finance regulation and the current state of the law, current practices and trends in the flow of money, the constitutional debate, the use of political party money, issue advocacy, public financing of presidential elections, implementing and enforcing campaign finance laws, and campaigning on the internet. The authors conclude with a broad overview of alternative approaches to reform.

The related website (brookings.edu/campaignfinance) features sidebars that correspond to the book's chapters as well as associated documents. The site is frequently updated with recent developments in campaign finance regulation and analyses of current court cases and administrative decisions. There are also links to advisory opinions from the Federal Elections Commission, nonprofit organizations that study reform, and related publications-.

This completely revised and expanded update of Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook provides the definitive exposition of federal campaign finance regulation. Written by four of the nation's most influential analysts on politics and money, The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook presents a thorough overview and analysis of campaign finance policy and practices, including the history of campaign finance regulation state of campaign finance law and the implementation of BCRA constitutional and regulatory issues in the campaign finance debate current practices and trends in the financing of federal elections public financing of presidential elections rules for campaigning on the internet alternative approaches to reform.

Anthony Corrado is professor of government at Colby College and a nonresident senior fellow in governance gtudies at the Brookings Institution. Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow in governance studies at Brookings, where he holds the W. Averell Harriman Chair. Daniel R. Ortiz is the John Allan Love Professor of Law and Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center; a member of Caplin and Drysdale s Washington, D.C. office; and a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.