I am currently writing a piece on public perception of corruption and trying to tie it into the campaign finance debate. I've developed a powerpoint presentation with about a twenty graphs and placed it on my website at the following link:
http://www.law.upenn.edu/fac/npersily/workinprogress/corruption.pdf Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. I present some of the data from the Defendants (Mellman & Wirthlin Study) and Plaintiffs (Study by Whit Ayres) in the BCRA litigation concerning public opinion of corruption and undue influence stemming from soft money donations. However, most of the paper uses data from the National Election Studies. The basic argument of the paper is that perceptions of corruption, at least in the aggregate, have more to do with Americans' attitudes about government generally or the job approval of incumbents, in particular, than they do with anything happening in the campaign finance system. I would be eager to hear any thoughts from listmembers. -- Nathaniel Persily Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (o) 215-898-0167 (f) 215-573-2025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://persily.pennlaw.net/
