Show Me The Money-P4- Ray La Raja

How Transparency in Political Donations Could Change American Elections Visit ISPS: https://isps.yale.edu/ The Scholars Stategy Network; https://scholars.org/ Yale University: https://youtu.be/9PHL4kMH1no His research interests include political parties, interest groups, elections, campaign finance, political participation, American state politics, public policy and political reform. He is am co-founder and former co-editor of The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics and He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Campaign Finance Institute. Ray’s most recent book, with Brian Schaffner, is Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail (Univ. of MIchigan Press 2015), which was the winner of the Virginia Gray Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association's State Politics and Policy section. Associate Director of the UMass Poll, which conducts public opinion research in Massachusetts and the United States to inform policymaking. Under current judicial interpretation, the government has very little wiggle room to curb the spending of money for electioneering. Spending money to influence elections is interpreted as integral to first amendment rights. However, the Supreme Court has signaled that governments are able to compel disclosure of political contributions. Disclosure -- publicizing who donors are, who they are giving to, and how much -- is seen as the primary way that governments can mitigate concerns about the role of money in politics. There are a number of disclosure policy proposals out there, and the goal of this panel is to sort through the various ideas for reform. The lawyers on the panel (Gerken and Potter) will talk about the legal foundations and policy proposals. The political scientists (La Raja and Primo) will talk about the empirical evidence of the effects of disclosure laws. Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions #America #History #Podcast #Education #Not4Profit Footage downloaded and edited by PublicAccessPod Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJbAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy