The political parties and campaign finance reform

Article Abstract:

Recent campaign finance innovations of the major political parties have blown large and widening holes in federal campaign finance regulation. The relationship between parties and candidates also challenges the basic doctrinal categories of campaign finance law. The Constitution permits regulation of campaign finances to deal with the danger of corruption. But some judges and commentators have argued that the parties present no danger of corruption. This Article finds that, although parties play a positive role in funding campaigns, certain party practices raise the specter of corruption in the constitutional sense. Moreover, due to the close connection between parties and candidates, and the parties' role in linking private donors to key participants in the legislative process, party campaign practices may, constitutionally, be subject to greater regulation than comparable practices of nonparty political organizations. The Article presents specific proposals for dealing with the party activities that have undermined campaign finance law, and argues that such reforms would also bolster the positive role the parties play in the political process.(Author Abstract)

Analysis, Finance, Political campaigns, Campaign finance reform

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A government for our time? Business improvement districts and urban governance

Article Abstract:

"Business improvement districts" are becoming increasingly popular nationwide, although critics have objected to them on legal and ethical grounds. BIDs are special districts funded by district-specific taxes as a means of improving the business climate in core commercial areas through improvements in public safety, street maintenance, and urban amenities. Although BIDs have improved urban public life, they have also been justly criticized for "privatizing" and sanitizing the public sector. The trade-offs between business district and local government control represented by BIDs reflect the changing role of modern urban governance.

Local, Methods, Management, Evaluation, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Municipal services, Industrial development, Industrialization

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Voting rights, home rule, and metropolitan governance: the secession of Staten Island as a case study in the dilemmas of local self-determination

Article Abstract:

New York State adopted legislation in 1989 allowing Staten Island to hold a referendum on the issue of secession from the City of New York. The exclusion of the rest of New York City from the process raises questions concerning the proper unit of local self-determination under voting rights and home rule provisions. New York City's interests should be recognized by requiring its consent to secession, subject to review by the state if consent is denied. Because secession would signal the failure of urban democracy, the City should take the movement seriously as an indication of the need for reform.

Laws, regulations and rules, Political aspects, Metropolitan government, Municipal home rule, Staten Island, New York, New York

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