CSED Senior Research Fellow David B. Magleby
David Magleby is Dean of the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is nationally recognized for his expertise on direct democracy, voting behavior and campaign finance. He is the principle investigator on CSED's projects monitoring soft money and issue advocacy in competitive federal elections. His publications include
Direct Legislation; The Money Chase: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform; The Myth of the Independent Voter;
Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 1998 Congressional Elections;
The Other Campaign: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections;
Financing the 2000 Election;
The Last Hurrah? Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections; Electing Congress: New Rules for an Old Game; Dancing without Partners: How Candidates, Parties and Interest Groups Interact in the Presidential Campaign; Financing the 2004 Election; The Battle for Congress: Iraq, Scandal, and Campaign Finance in the 2006 Election; and several editions of the American government textbook
Government by the People. He is a former president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, and a Fulbright Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University.
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