Does Public Election Funding Change Public Policy?


Does Public Election Funding Change Public Policy? Evaluating the State of Knowledge Fluno Center for Executive Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison January 28-29, 2006 (click here for details) (click here to transcribe)
Public Funding and Legislative Behavior: Analyzing State Legislatures [Transcript]
	Michael Bailey - Georgetown University (Paper) Thad Kousser - UC San Diego (Paper) Anthony Gierzynksi - University of Vermont Keith Hamm - Rice University Edwin Bender – National Institute on Money in State Politics
Non-legislative bodies: Gubernatorial, Judicial, and Commission decision making [Transcript]
	David Primo – University of Rochester (Paper) Jeffrey Milyo – University of Missouri Robert Hogan – Louisiana State University Cindy Canary – Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
Public Funding and Candidates, Interest Grups and Political Parties [Transcript]
	John Coleman - UW Madison (Paper) Ray La Raja - University of Massachusetts – Amherst (Paper) Jennifer Steen – Boston College Michael McDonald – George Mason University Dorie Apollonio – UC San Francisco Seema Shah - Brennan Center
Public Funding and Policy Outcomes: Does public funding change government policy? [Transcript]
	Ruth Jones - Arizona State University Robert Stern - Center for Governmental Studies Hon. Meg Burton-Cahill - Arizona House of Representatives Hon. Barbara Lawton – Lieutenant Governor, State of Wisconsin Cecilia Martinez – Reform Institute
Constitutional, Legal, and Normative Considerations [Transcript]
	John Samples - CATO Institute (Paper) Nate Persily – University of Pennsylvania Richard Briffault – Columbia University Michael Malbin – Campaign Finance Institute John Rauh – Americans for Campaign Reform
Bios - Conference Panelists
	[top]Dorie Apollonio is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in December of 2002, and holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on campaign finance, political reform, and health policy, with a particular emphasis on the political strategies of the tobacco industry. A recent paper she wrote with Ray La Raja uses data from the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Project to consider political reforms in state legislative elections. [top]Michael A. Bailey is the Colonel William J. Walsh Associate Professor of American Government in the Georgetown University Department of Government and the Georgetown Institute of Public Policy. He teaches and conducts research on American politics and political economy. His work covering trade, Congress and the Supreme Court, methodology and inter-state policy competition has been accepted at the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and elsewhere. He has also analyzed many congressional elections and has edited a book from Congressional Quarterly Press on the topic. [top]Richard Briffault is Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation at Columbia Law School. His primary areas of research, teaching and writing are state and local government law, election law, and property. He is also Director of Columbia’s Legislative Drafting Research Fund. Professor Briffault is the co-author of State and Local Government Law (6th ed. 2004), and author of Balancing Acts: The Reality Behind State Balanced Budget Requirements (1996). He was executive director of the Commission on Campaign Finance Reform of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and principal author of the Commission’s report, Dollars and Democracy: A Blueprint for Campaign Finance Reform (2000). He is also the author of numerous law review articles on local government law, state-local relations, campaign finance reform, and voting rights. [top]John Coleman is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Coleman's teaching and research interests are in the evolution of the American state and the relationship between changes in the political economy of the United States and its party structure. He is the author of Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics, and the Fiscal State (Princeton University Press, 1996) and articles on party organizations, elections, Congress, the presidency, campaign spending, and international trade. His current research includes projects on campaign spending, congressional political parties, and the politics of income distribution [top]Anthony Gierzynski (Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1989), is associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Money Rules: Financing Elections in America (2000) and Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the American States (1992). He has also published over a dozen articles and book chapters on the financing of elections and political parties. He has been a member of a number of research teams that have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the Joyce Foundation to study campaign finance. And, he has been an expert witness for the State of Vermont and the City of Albuquerque, NM in court cases involving campaign finance laws (one of which, Randall v. Sorrell, is currently before the US Supreme Court). [top]Keith E. Hamm is Professor of Political Science at Rice University and currently a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Center on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University. Professor Hamm has spent the better part of the last decade studying issues related to state legislative elections and campaign finance. His research with Robert Hogan at LSU, funded by the National Science Foundation, has involved a detailed examination of the statutory and regulatory provisions of campaign finance laws for each of the 50 states over an extended time frame. He is also studying the impact of campaign finance laws in the Canadian provinces. In terms of legislative behavior, he co-authored with Peverill Squire 101 Chambers: Congress, State Legislatures, and the Future of Legislative Studies in 2005. [top]Robert Hogan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He received a Ph.D. in 1998 from Rice University. His research examines various aspects of electoral politics in the states with an emphasis on legislative campaigns, political parties, and interest groups. Questions related to campaign financing play prominently in his research that focuses on where candidates receive their funding, what influences the total amounts they raise and spend, and how they allocate these funds. Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, he is working with Keith Hamm (Rice University) examining differences in campaign finance laws across the states and their effects on various parts of the electoral process. [top]Ruth S. Jones is Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost, Arizona State University. Public funding of state-level election campaigns is the focus of Ruth’s research and teaching interests. In 1999 she was appointed as a founding member of the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission and served as its chair during the 2002 election cycle. Currently she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Campaign Finance Institute and served on its task force on Financing Presidential Nominations. [top]Thad Kousser is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego who joined the faculty after completing his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and serving as a Congressional Fellow. His publications include Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism (Cambridge University Press) and Adaptations to Term Limits: Recent Experiences and New Directions (Public Policy Institute of California). He has also published research on the initiative process, California’s 2003 recall election, reapportionment, campaign finance laws, the blanket primary, health care policy, and European Parliament elections. Kousser has worked on congressional, state, and local campaigns, and as a staff assistant in the US, California, and New Mexico Senates. [top]Raymond J. La Raja is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an editor of The Forum, an electronic journal of applied research in contemporary politics. His research on American political parties, interest groups, and consequences of electoral reforms has appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes. He serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington, DC. He has written a policy report, Clean Elections: An Evaluation of Public Funding for Maine Legislative Election Contests, sponsored by the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts. [top]Barbara Lawton is Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. A first run for office in 1996 was her first look at the underbelly of our electoral process, enough to transform her into a serious student of and outspoken advocate for public financing of campaigns. She served as spokesperson for the “Citizens’ Panel for a Clean Elections Option,” better known as the “Heffernan Commission” for its chair, the former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Lieutenant Governor Lawton is a leading voice for genuine campaign finance reform in Wisconsin, and is currently at work to devise a public education campaign in this state to drive legislative action toward that end. [top]Michael J. Malbin is Executive Director of the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization affiliated with George Washington University. He is also a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. Malbin recently has edited and co-authored The Election after Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, The Day after Reform: Sobering Campaign Finance Lesson from the American States, and two CFI major reports on the presidential funding system. In addition to his work on campaign finance, Malbin’s other projects have included the award winning Vital Statistics on Congress (co-authored by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein) a book about term limits and a major NSF funded database project on presidential-congressional relations since 1789. [top]Michael P. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, San Diego and a B.S. in Economics from California Institute of Technology. His research interests include voting behavior, redistricting, Congress, American political development, and political methodology. He has published in many of the discipline’s top journals, and his opinion editorials have appeared in The Washington Post, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and Roll Call. On the practical side of politics, Dr. McDonald has worked for the national exit poll organization, consulted to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, served on campaign staff for state legislative campaigns in California and Virginia, has worked for national polling firms, and has worked as a redistricting consultant in Alaska, Arizona, California, Michigan, and New York [top]Jeff Milyo (Phd Stanford, 1994) is an associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri with a joint appointment in the Truman School of Public Affairs. His research expertise is in American political economy. Current research focuses on the efficacy of campaign finance reforms, political determinants of policy outcomes, the causes and consequences of social capital, and the implications of partisan bias in the media. Other recent projects include empirical investigations of the social determinants of health and the effects of alcohol regulations. Milyo’s work has published in several leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. In addition, Milyo’s research findings have been cited frequently in the national media, most recently on CNN and FoxNews, as well as in the Washington Post, USAToday, BusinessWeek and the Weekly Standard. [top]Nathaniel Persily is Professor of Law and a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a nationally recognized expert on election law and a frequent practitioner and media commentator in the area. Most recently, Professor Persily was appointed by courts to help draw legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland and New York and by the California State Senate as an expert in their redistricting litigation. He has published dozens of articles on the legal regulation of political parties, the 2000 Census and redistricting, and campaign finance reform. He received his joint B.A./ M.A. in Political Science from Yale (1992), his J.D. from Stanford Law School (1998) where he was President of the Law Review, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley (2002). [top]David Primo, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Rochester, received his Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. He has published several articles on campaign finance reform, the impact of legislative procedures on policy outcomes, and political bargaining. His first book, The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy, was co-authored with Roger Cobb and published in 2003 by Brookings Institution Press. He is currently completing his second book, tentatively titled Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions. Primo served as an expert witness in McConnell v. FEC and is frequently cited in national media outlets addressing campaign finance and other political issues. [top]John Samples directs the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute. He has written extensively on campaign finance regulation. His book Money, Politics and Corruption: Progressivism and the Decline of Free Speech will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2006. He has edited three books for the Cato Institute including Welfare for Politicians: Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns (2005). Samples is currently co-director of the Brookings-Cato project on the decline of electoral competition. He teaches courses on public opinion and on money in politics at the Johns Hopkins University. Samples previously served as Director of the Georgetown University Press and Vice President of The Twentieth Century Fund. He received a PhD in political science from Rutgers University. [top]Jennifer Steen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her book, Self-Financing Candidates in Congressional Elections, will be published by the University of Michigan Press in early 2006. A former political consultant, Professor Steen's theoretical and empirical work is complemented by her background in the rough-and-tumble world of political campaigns. Prior to pursuing her doctorate (at U.C. Berkeley) she worked for candidates in local, state and federal elections. Professor Steen was also active in party politics, serving as a county precinct captain, national convention delegate and member of the Electoral College. [top]Bob Stern is President of the Center for Governmental Studies, and has been active in the political reform movement for over 35 years. He began drafting and analyzing political reform laws as a staff attorney for the California legislature’s Assembly Elections Committee. He was the principal co-author of California’s 1974 Political Reform Act, adopted by 70% of California’s voters, and was a principal drafter of the City of Los Angles Ethics and Public Campaign Financing laws. He was the first general counsel of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. He is the co-author of a number of studies on campaign financing, including The New Gold Rush: Financing California’s Legislative Elections, Money and Politics in the Golden State, and Campaign Finance Disclosure Model Law. He has appeared before numerous legislative bodies throughout the United States and Canada.
Conference Participants
	Margo Alpert Illinois Campaign for Political Reform 325 W. Huron, Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60610 margo@ilcampaign.org Dorie Apollonio University of California, San Francisco 530 Parnassus Ave., Ste. 366, Box 1390 San Francisco, CA 94143 dorie.apollonio@ucsf.edu Michael Bailey Georgetown University ICC, Suite 681 Washington, DC 20057 baileyma@georgetown.edu Benjmanin Barr Goldwater Institute 500 E. Coronado Road Phoenix, AZ 85004 bbarr@goldwaterinstitute.org Edwin Bender National Institute For Money in State Politics 833 N. Last Chance Gulch, 2nd Floor Helena, MT 59601 edwinb@statemoney.org Solange E. Bitol-Hansen Public Campaign 1320 19th St. NW, Suite M-1 Washington, DC, DC 20036 sbitol-hansen@publicampaign.org Michael Blumenfeld Blumenfeld and Associates 16 N. Carroll St., Ste. 800 Madison, WI 53703 blumk@aol.com Richard Briffault Columbia Law School 425 W. 116th St., Room 726 New York, NY 10027 brfflt@law.columbia.edu Meg Burton-Cahill Arizona House of Representatives 1531 E. Cedar Street Tempe, AZ 85281 mbcahill@azleg.gov Cindi Canary Illinois Campaign for Political Reform 325 W. Huron, Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60610 cprcanary@aol.com Michael Caudell-Feagan Pew Charitable Trusts 2005 Market Street, Suite 1700 Philadelphia, PA 19103 MCaudell-Feagan@pewtrusts.org John Coleman UW Madison 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall Madison, WI 53706 coleman@polisci.wisc.edu Stuart Comstock-Gay National Voting Rights Institute 27 School St., Suite 500 Boston, MA 02108 scg@nvri.org Kristen Engberg JEHT Foundation 120 Wooster St. New York, NY 10012 Kengberg@jehtfoundation.org Anthony Gierzynski University of Vermont 513 Old Mill Burlington, VT 05405 agierzyn@uvm.edu Keith Hamm Rice University 216 Baker Hall Houston, TX 77251 hamm@rice.edu Robert Hogan Louisiana State University 238 Stubbs Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 rhogan1@lsu.edu Ruth Jones Arizona State University Arizona State University, Box 2803 Tempe, AZ 85287 Ruth.Jones@asu.edu Kevin Kennedy Wisconsin State Elections Board 17 W. Main St., Suite 310 Madison, WI 53701 kevin.kennedy@seb.state.wi.us Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego Social Sciences Building 301, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0521 La Jolla, CA 92093 tkousser@ucsd.edu Bill Kraus Common Cause, Wisconsin 152 W. Johnson, #212, Box 212 Madison, WI 53701 GOBKraus@aol.com Raymond La Raja University of Massachusetts, Amherst Thompson Hall Amherst, MA 01003 laraja@polsci.umass.edu Barbara Lawton Office of the Lieutenant Governor, State of Wisconsin 19 E. State Capitol Madison, WI 53702 Brian.Matakis@ltgov.state.wi.us Amy Loprest NYC Campaign Finance Board 40 Rector St., 7th floor New York, NY 10006 aloprest@nyccfb.info Michael Malbin Campaign Finance Institute 1990 M. St. NW Suite 380 Washington, DC 20036 mmalbin@cfinst.org Geri Mannion Carnegie Corporation 437 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022 GPM@carnegie.org Cecilia Martinez Reform Institute 211 N. Union St., Ste. 205 Alexandria, VA 22314 cmartinez@reforminstitute.org Ken Mayer UW Madison 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall Madison, WI 53706 kmayer@polisci.wisc.edu Michael McDonald George Mason University 4400 University Drive-3F4 Fairfax, VA 22030 mmcdon@gmu.edu Jeffrey Milyo University of Missouri (Department of Economics) 118 Professional Building Columbia, MO 65211 milyoj@missouri.edu Suzanne Novak Brennan Center 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor New York, NY 10013 suzanne.novak@nyu.org Nathan Persily University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 npersily@law.upenn.edu David Primo University of Rochester Harkness Hall 318 Rochester, NY 14627 david.primo@rochester.edu Marc Ratkovic UW Madison 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall Madison, WI 53706 ratkovic@polisci.wisc.edu John Rauh Americans for Campaign Reform 5 Bicentennial Square Concord, NH 03301 jrauh@just6dollars.org Joel Rivlin UW Madison 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall Madison, WI 53706 rivlin@polisci.wisc.edu John Samples Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20001 jsamples@cato.org Seema Shah Brennan Center 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor New York, NY 10013 sshah@nyu.edu Beverly Speer Wisconsin Democracy Campaign 210 N. Bassett St., Suite 215 Madison, WI 53703 speer@wisdc.org Bob Spiegelman Americans for Campaign Reform 5 Bicentennial Square Concord, NH 03301 robertspiegelman@adelphia.net Jennifer Steen Boston College McGuinn 201 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 jennifer.steen@bc.edu Robert Stern Center for Government Studies 10951 W. Pico Blvd. Suite 120 Los Angeles, CA 90064 rstern@cgs.org Janice Thompson Money in Politics Research Action Center 917 SW Oak St, Suite 422 Portland, OR 97205 jthompson@oregonfollowthemoney.org Tim Werner UW Madison 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall Madison, WI 53706 werner@polisci.wisc.edu