Home Rule and Local Political Innovation
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Home Rule and Local Political Innovation
Columbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovationw School, brfflt@law.columbia.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.lawcolumbia.edu/faculty_scholarship& Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, International Law Commons, and the Law and Politics CommonsRecommended CitationRichard Briffault, Home Rule and Local Political Innov Home Rule and Local Political Innovationation, Journal of Law & Politics, Vol. 22, p. 1,2006;Princeton Law & Public Affairs Working Paper No. 06-012; Columbia Public Lav/ Research Paper No.Home Rule and Local Political Innovation
06-107 (2006).Available at: https://scholarshipIaw.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/i405This Working Paper is brought to you for free and open access Columbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovationrship Archive. For more information, please contact scho!arshiparchive@law.columbia eduColumbia University Law School Public Law and Legal Theory' Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 06-107andPrinceton University Program in Law and Public Affairs Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 06-012H Home Rule and Local Political Innovationome Rule and Local Political Innovation-by-RICHARD BRIFFAULTPrinceton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Columbia Law SchoolJournal of LawHome Rule and Local Political Innovation
& Politics, Vol. 22, p. 1, 2006Fall Semester 2006This paper can be downloadedfree of charge from the Social Science Research Network at: http://ssrn.Columbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovational attention was riveted on the presidential election, two intriguing and potentially significant political developments were occurring al the municipal level. In San Francisco on Election Day. voters participating in the election lor the city’s Board of Supervisors cast then ballots using an unusua Home Rule and Local Political Innovationl (for Americans) system of instant runoff voting (1RV), which enabled them to indicate then second and third choices in addition to their first prefeHome Rule and Local Political Innovation
rence. If no candidate in a district receives an outright majority of the first-place votes cast, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated anColumbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovationted. This enables voters to vote for independent or third pally candidates without the fear that they are “wasting** their votes or supporting a “spoiler,” and avoids the cost of a runoff election.A few weeks later across the country, the members of the New York City Council took a dramatic step whe Home Rule and Local Political Innovationn they overrode Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto and significantly expanded (he reach of the City's already noteworthy1 * * campaign finance law. The olHome Rule and Local Political Innovation
d law', which was first enacted in 1988. created a voluntary campaign financing program under w hich participating candidates for local office are eliColumbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovation- restrictions much lighter than New York state's very loose limits on donations to local candidates? The amendments adopted at the end of 20041 See Paul Ryan. ChNThRFORGovLRN.MhNTAL Stud., a Statute Of Liberty: How New York Chy’s CampaignFinance IAWIS CHANGING tit Fact of I OCAĨ ELECTIONS 15 (2003) Home Rule and Local Political Innovation, http: ' 'www.cgs.org publications docs/ nycreport.pdf (referring Io the New York city law as a “model for the nation").' See id at 8-13.extend New YHome Rule and Local Political Innovation
ork City’s disclosure requirements and contribution limitations to all candidates for municipal office - even those not participating in the public fuColumbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovationhe voluntary spending limits. Reacting to Bloomberg's expenditure of S73 million of his personal funds in his successful quest for the mayoralty in 2001. the City Council voted not only to lift the spending limit for a participating candidate facing a self-funded opponent but also to provide the par Home Rule and Local Political Innovationticipating candidate with an unprecedented six-to-one public funds match for qualifying private contributions.4These developments in San Francisco andHome Rule and Local Political Innovation
New York are illustrative of a broader phenomenon - political innovation and reform at the local level. Although the scope of local autonomy remains Columbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia Law Home Rule and Local Political Innovationcal governmental and electoral processes, and in experimenting with new forms of political organization. Many of these - like alternative voting systems.5 campaign finance reform.6 * term limits." and conflict of interest regulations - can involve Home Rule and Local Political InnovationColumbia Law SchoolScholarship ArchiveFaculty ScholarshipFaculty Publications2006Home Rule and Local Political InnovationRichard BriffaultColumbia LawGọi ngay
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