Declining Fortunes: State Party Finances, 2004


 

Publication Date: September 2005

Publisher: National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.)

Author(s): Denise Roth Barber

Research Area: Politics

Type: Report

Abstract:

The effects of federal campaign-finance reforms were felt far beyond the Beltway in 2004. State political party committees saw a significant drop in their revenues after the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned unlimited soft-money contributions to national party committees and thus cut off a major source of funds for the state parties.