Includes bibliographical references and index.

Campaign finance and the race for the 2008 presidential election / Costas Panagopoulos -- The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act is a success / Meredith McGehee -- The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act is a necessary but incomplete law / Trevor Potter -- Campaign finance reform stifles political free speech / Bradley A. Smith -- Campaign finance reform does not stifle political free speech / V.B. Price -- Free speech is no basis for undoing the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act / Jeffrey Rosen -- The Supreme Court was right to overturn the Millionaire's Amendment / Hans A. von Spakovsky -- Overturning the Millionaire's Amendment weakened democracy / Jay Mandle -- The ban on nonprofit campaign spending should be overturned / Stuart Taylor Jr. -- The campaign finance decision upholds the First Amendment / Paul Sherman -- The Supreme Court's campaign finance decision is bad for democracy / Richard L. Hasen -- Congress should pass the Fair Elections Now Act / Nick Nyhart and David Donnelly -- The Fair Elections Now Act is impractical / Sean Parnell -- Campaign finance reform hurts Republicans / Gary Andres -- America needs a small-donor, public-funded campaign finance system / Mark Schmitt -- The internet will shape the future of campaign finance / James A. Barnes -- Despite reform measures, money will always influence politics / P.J. O'Rourke.