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10 - Parties and the Current Campaign Finance Landscape

from Part III - The Party, the Court, and Campaign Finance Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Wayne Batchis
Affiliation:
University of Delaware
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Summary

Today parties remain significant players in the campaign finance arena, even if they have been somewhat diminished in the wake of BCRA’s closing of the soft money loophole and the emergence of super PACs resulting from the Court’s deregulatory impulses. Some scholars have pointed to the contemporary confluence of party strength and weakness – in which the major parties, enfeebled by many of the developments in the campaign finance realm, are at the same time emboldened by way heightened polarization has sharpened the power of party identity.1 And powerful campaign finance tools do remain in the party toolbox. Joint fundraising committees, for example, allow parties to coordinate campaign finance activities for a multitude of candidates, allowing donors to write a single check that is distributed in accordance with contributions limits.2

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Throwing the Party
How the Supreme Court Puts Political Party Organizations Ahead of Voters
, pp. 169 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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