"The ideas in this book were first debated at a symposium that was organized and generously sponsored by Free Speech for People and held in Newark, New Jersey, on April 1, 2016"--Acknowledgments, page viii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The third coming of American plutocracy : what campaign finance reformers are up against / Timothy K. Kuhner -- Liberty, equality, bribery, and self-government : reframing the campaign finance debate / Deborah Hellman -- Aligning campaign finance law / Nicholas Stephanopoulos -- Reforming campaign finance reform : the future of public funding / Richard Briffault -- Raising all of our voices for democracy : a hybrid public funding proposal / Adam Lioz -- Reorienting disclosure debates in a post-citizens united world / Katherine Shaw -- Beyond repair : FEC reform and deadlock deference / Daniel P. Tokaji -- The people's pledge : campaign finance reform without legal reform / Ganesh Sitaraman -- Super PAC insurance : a private sector solution to reform campaign finance / Nick Warshaw -- Constraining and channeling corporate political power in Trump's America / Kent Greenfield -- Reforming lobbying / Maggie McKinley -- Regulating campaign finance through legislative recusal rules / Eugene D. Mazo -- Contributions and corruption : restoring aggregate limits in the states / Michael D. Gilbert -- Developing better empirical evidence for future campaign finance cases / Brent Ferguson and Chisun Lee -- Fixing the Supreme Court's mistake : the case for the Twenty-Eighth Amendment / Ronald A. Fein -- The repudiation of Buckley v. Valeo / K. D. Ewing -- Equal participation and campaign finance / Yasmin Dawood -- Political finance and political equality : lessons from Europe / Óscar Sánchez Muñoz.