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 reform requires confronting possible tradeoffs between internet-based political participation and ideological extremism.

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Romanticizing Democracy, Political Fragmentation, and the Decline of American Government

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Political Avoidance, Constitutional Theory, and the VRA