The Constitution's Guarantee Clause provides “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” At a time of national political division and dysfunction the Union, as well as the Republican Form of Government itself, would be better served by...

This essay suggests a framework for recalibrating campaign finance contribution limits and disclosure thresholds to the current campaign practices of particular jurisdictions. Campaign finance regimes have varied widely across several political eras and several jurisdictional scales. Strikingly,...

This essay considers the information tradeoff model as the core element in a dynamic system of campaign finance disclosure. First, it recognizes several useful contributions built into the model's framework of informational costs and benefits. In the simplest analysis, disclosure increases the...

Thirty years ago, Congress reoriented the Interstate Commerce Commission to protect railroads in addition to shippers. Part I of this article describes the circumstances behind this regulatory shift and the regime it produced. Part II explains both the development and failure of the new regime...