Research Institutions and Interest Groups

• Alliance for Better Campaigns: www.bettercampaigns.org
• American University Campaign Finance:
  Internet-accessible, database-formatted campaign finance files
• The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: Includes critiques from a campaign finance perspective
• Benton Foundation: The Reporters' Reference Center on Campaign Finance Reform.
  Destination Democracy: Benton's in-depth look at all facets of democracy, with emphasis on campaign financing
• The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law www.brennancenter.org. -- Brennan Center's democracy program supports campaign finance reform through scholarship, public education, and legal action, including litigation and legislative counseling at the federal, state, and local levels
• Brookings Institution:
  Special section on campaign financing
  Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook
• Campaign Finance Information Center (a division of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting)
• Campaign Finance Institute
• Campaign for America
• Campaign for America's Future
• The Cato Institute
• The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) at American University - CCPS provides an integrated teaching, research, and study program focusing on Congress and the presidency and the interactions of these two basic American institutions. Established in 1979, the Center provides a scholarly organization uniquely able to draw on its Washington, DC location in the very heart of the events shaping Congress and the presidency.
• The Center for Governmental Studies
• Center for Public Integrity:
  Excellent in-depth research on a variety of money-in-politics-related subjects. Check out their "Public I" section.
• Center for Responsive Politics:
  In Public Campaign's admittedly biased opinion, the best source for campaign finance data
• Citizens Against Government Waste
• COGEL (Council on Government Ethics Law)
• Columbia University Library / U. S. Government Documents, Campaigns and Elections
• The Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
• Common Cause: Reports, actions alerts, petition drives
• DEMOS
• Special campaign finance resources
• Environmental Working Group:
  Money in politics' adverse effect on environmental legislation
• Fannie Lou Hamer Project: Exciting new national group focusing on redefining campaign finance as a civil rights issue
• Green Democrats -- a website presenting arguments for creating a peace, environmental, and social justice wing within the Democratic Party of the United States.
• Hearts and Minds links to campaign finance reform groups www.heartsandminds.org/links/cfrlinks.htm
• League of Women Voters
• MovingIdeas.org: An Electronic Policy Network
• National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
• The National Voting Rights Institute:
  Legal arguments for changing the current campaign finance system
• Open Debates -- Open Debates works to ensure that the presidential debates serve the American people first. The are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to reforming the presidential debate process.
• Pesticide Education Center
• Project Vote Smart: Campaign finance links and information on the issue
• Public Citizen: A wealth of research and analysis
• U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)
  PIRG Democracy Program including Congressional Scorecards
  State PIRGs
• University of Michigan Documents Center Federal Government Resources on the Web
• Washington Toxics Coalition
• Prof. Clyde Wilcox, author of a book on campaign donors