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The future of campaign finance reform

Joel W. Johnson (Colorado State): Electoral Systems and Campaign Finance. Bradley A. Smith (Capital): The Academy, Campaign Finance, and Free Speech under Fire. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Stetson): Dark Money as a Political Sovereignty Problem. How Citizens United gave Republicans a bonanza of seats in U.S. state legislatures. When capitalists go on strike: It’s not just “money in politics” — capitalists get what they want through structural power over the economy. Anthony J. Gaughan (Drake): The Forty-Year War on Money in Politics: Watergate, FECA, and the Future of Campaign Finance Reform. Strategy for democracy: Rob Hager on why and how to get money out of politics.