Life After Reform

Life After Reform is the first serious and dispassionate book about how politics will change under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It will quickly be seen as an essential tool for understanding the 2004 election. But its sophisticated and original framework for understanding change will also make it important well beyond a specific election, and long after reform debates have shifted to new questions.

Michael J. Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), is also professor of political science, University at Albany, State University of New York. A Campaign Finance Institute Book. The Campaign Finance Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institute affiliated with the George Washington University that conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces, and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance.