The presidential primary processes used by the two major parties misses opportunities to engage voters and incorporate their input in selecting nominees. This report by Fordham Law School's Democracy Clinic advances several reforms to make the primaries more inclusive, including reordering the...

Using the 1992 presidential election as a case study, Newman reveals how the American political process has been transformed by the use of marketing techniques. He addresses issues of serious concern to the health of the political process including the role of polling, direct mail and television...

Party networks scholars have argued that parties, in the form of expanded party networks, have played an increasingly central role in presidential nominations in the last several elections. Yet we do not yet know what consequences, if any, this electoral development has for governing. In this...

This Article explores the role of the executive branch, when driven by the President, in deregulating the financial system. While administrative law formally requires that financial regulation derive from notice-and-comment rulemaking, Presidents of the past two administrations have made novel...