Book contents
- Throwing the Party
- Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Throwing the Party
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Party Primaries
- Part III The Party, the Court, and Campaign Finance Law
- 8 Party Speech through Money
- 9 An Ill-Fitting Party Campaign Finance Jurisprudence
- 10 Parties and the Current Campaign Finance Landscape
- Part IV Passé Equal Protection and a Way Forward
- Index
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
- Throwing the Party
- Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Throwing the Party
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Party Primaries
- Part III The Party, the Court, and Campaign Finance Law
- 8 Party Speech through Money
- 9 An Ill-Fitting Party Campaign Finance Jurisprudence
- 10 Parties and the Current Campaign Finance Landscape
- Part IV Passé Equal Protection and a Way Forward
- Index
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 PartyHow the Supreme Court Puts Political Party Organizations Ahead of Voters, pp. 169 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022