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Save to My PortfolioA Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?

Thomas E. Mann, April 2008, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1

The fascinating 2008 presidential election has produced recent campaign finance developments, writes Thomas Mann, suffiently dramatic as to raise questions about the viability of the entire regime of campaign finance law. Read More

Campaign Finance, U.S. Politics, Courts, U.S. Congress, Elections

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Save to My PortfolioCongressional Corruption: Reforming the Broken Branch

Thomas E. Mann and Lawrence Lessig, April 16, 2008, Bloggingheads.tv

Thomas Mann and Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School appeared on Bloggingheads.tv to discuss ways to restore public trust in Congress, and its failure to engage in responsible and deliberative lawmaking, to police the ethical behavior of its members, and to check and balance the executive. Read More

U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Corruption, Congressional Oversight, Politics

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Save to My PortfolioThe Role of the Legislature in the Budget Process: Lessons from the Field

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Washington, DC

The Transparency and Accountability Project hosted Alison Paul DeSchryver and John Johnson, from the National Democratic Institute, to present some impressions and results that have come from recent projects to strengthen the legislature. Read More

Global Governance, Corruption, Global Economics

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Save to My PortfolioDo Politically Connected Firms Undermine Their Own Competitiveness?

Raj M. Desai and Anders Olofsgård, January 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance: Matching Candidates' Scratch

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance Reform: Are There Smarter Ways to Fix the System?

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance Reloaded

Thomas E. Mann, July 09, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioHow Cronyism Harms the Investment Climate

Raj M. Desai, January 2007, Global Views 2007-01

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioUnited States: Progress of the ""Freedom Strategy"" in the Middle East

Tamara Cofman Wittes, February 01, 2006, Arab Reform Bulletin

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Save to My PortfolioTerrorism, Drugs, Crime, Poverty, and Tax Evasion: The Ties That Bind

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Washington, DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important?

Tamara Cofman Wittes, August 24, 2005, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioJordan's Model of Development

Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Washington, DC

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Save to My PortfolioPolitical Corruption in the United States and Around the Globe

Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Washington, DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioEvent Summary: Political Corruption in the United States and Around the Globe

28-Apr-04, The Brookings Institution

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