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Recent campaign finance developments raise serious questions about the viability of the entire regime of campaign finance law. While McCain-Feingold is not the source of these developments, current and future changes in campaigning and campaign finance dictate a major reconsideration of the regulatory regime.

Recent campaign finance developments raise serious questions about the viability of the entire regime of campaign finance law. While McCain-Feingold is not the source of these developments, current and future changes in campaigning and campaign finance dictate a major reconsideration of the regulatory regime. Adapted from the source document.

The author considers the desirability & possibility of reducing the dominance of self-interested political actors in the redistricting process to argue that there are actually many factors that contribute to the ills of congressional elections. Analysis of redistricting in electoral districts distinguishes between the problems faced by single-member districts versus multiple-member districts. Historical congressional standards for equal population, protection of the will of the majority, contiguity & compactness are reviewed & placed in the context of redistricting procedures in the cases of Iowa, Washington, New Jersey, & Arizona. Lessons learned from commissions are delineated, & support the conclusion that the decline of competitive seats & the ideological polarization of parties indicate links among competition, partisanship, & redistricting. J. Harwell

Examines the policy implications of research findings, and the role of political scientists in improving democracy in the US, from the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BRCA).