This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. I have an instinctive reluctance to think about long-term plans. Too much uncertainty, too little flexibility in responding to unanticipated problems and opportunities. It would be tragic to fashion a grand strategy, this […]
Thomas Mann
Thomas E. Mann is the director of the Governmental Studies Program and W. Averell Harriman Senior Fellow in American Governance at the Brookings Institution.
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Controversy: Clean Elections Continued
O ne might have thought (or at least hoped) that the revelations of scandalous fundraising practices in the 1996 campaign would improve prospects for enacting much-needed reforms, much as tales of the outrageous behavior by the Committee to Reelect the President provided the impetus for the last major rewrite of campaign finance law in 1974. […]