Richard H. Pildes
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Small-Donor-Based Campaign-Finance Reform and Political Polarization
Small-donor campaign-finance reform is supported by participatory, egalitarian, and anti-corruption values. But while reform advocates focus on these values, they ignore the evidence that such reforms might further fuel the ideological extremes in American politics. Small-donor campaign-finance refo…
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Romanticizing Democracy, Political Fragmentation, and the Decline of American Government
This Feature was delivered originally as the 2013-14 Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture at Yale Law School. author. Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law. I am grateful for comments received there and at a presentati…
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Political Avoidance, Constitutional Theory, and the VRA
Constitutional theory and design have been dominated by the specter of legislative and executive institutions voraciously seeking to expand their powers. But in modern political practice, the flight from political responsibility–the problem of political abdication–is at least as serious a threat…