Political Reform That Works: Public Campaign Financing Blooms in Tucson
Political Reform That Works: Public Campaign Financing Blooms in
Tucson
CGS has released a new report, “Political Reform that Works: Public
Campaign Financing Blooms in Tucson,” the seventh in CGS’ multi-year
comparative research project, Public Financing in American Elections.
These reports provide a detailed examination of the strengths and
weaknesses of public financing laws in practice, with suggestions for
improvements, modifications and reform. The report shows that
Tucson’s public campaign financing system, enacted in 1985, is a
major success and can serve as a model for small- and medium-sized
cites throughout the United States. Tucson’s law is the oldest local
government public financing law currently administered in the nation
and demonstrates that, given sufficient time, public financing can
become an integral part of a jurisdiction’s political culture. Every
Tucson official elected from 1991 through the present has
participated in the city’s public financing program.
>> See the Full Report:
http://www.cgs.org/publications/docs/Political_Reform_That_Works.pdf