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American politics has gone off the rails

Tilman Klumpp (Alberta), Hugo M. Mialon (Emory), and Michael A. Williams (Competition Economics): Leveling the Playing Field? The Role of Public Campaign Funding in Elections. Michael D. Gilbert and Brian Barnes (Virginia): The Coordination Fallacy. Super PAC Men: Robert Faturechi on how political consultants took a Texas oilman on a wild ride. Jorge R. Roig (Charleston): A Quantum Congress. Richard L. Hasen (UC-Irvine): Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry. Lawrence Lessig (Harvard): Corrupt and Unequal, Both. Political Opportunity: Mark Schmitt on Citizens United and a new framework for democratic reform. The Contender: Andrew Rose interviews Zephyr Teachout on misperceptions of big government, the poetry of politics, and why “it would be a tragedy if [Hillary] ran in an uncontested primary”. “I was Alabama’s top judge. I’m ashamed by what I had to do to get there”: Sue Bell Cobb on how money is ruining America’s courts. Never count on the Supreme Court to protect voting rights. Ari Berman on how the GOP is resegregating the South. Micah Altman (MIT) and Brian Amos, Michael P. McDonald, and Daniel A. Smith (Florida): Revealing Preferences: Why Gerrymanders are Hard to Prove, and What to Do about It. What would change if there were more women in Congress? More than you think. Michael Winship on living the high life after Congress. Ezra Klein on 12 charts that show American politics has gone off the rails.