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...focused on the ways that scrapping early admissions would affect the representation of low-income applicants to Harvard. Avery highlighted a “pipeline problem” that Harvard and other elite institutions have experienced in the past, saying that “schools can’t reform anything except the students provided to them.” “What we found at Harvard was the introduction of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative increased representation,” Avery said, “and it particularly did it by drawing more people into the applicant pool...
...valiant voice cried out to Obama, “I don’t want money to pick my next president. I want to pick my president.” But for all this hand-wringing—instinctive aversion to filthy lucre—campaign finance reform is quixotic and probably unnecessary. The only way to actually take money out of politics is to take power out of Washington: If there is less government power to buy, people will spend less money trying...
Given that the First Amendment protects citizens’ right “to petition the government for redress of grievances,” legislators have only limited constitutional leeway to regulate political expression. But without draconian speech restrictions, reformers are left with only marginal changes that do not affect the underlying incentives to donate, and, as a result, campaign finance reforms just shift money around. So, when “soft” money was banned by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform, candidates raised more “hard” money, and 527s (such as the Swift Boat...
Thus, campaign finance reform seems like a dangerous non-solution to a limited problem. But if taking money out of politics is indeed important, the only fail-safe means of doing so is to limit the size and power of the government. As Radley Balko, a senior editor at Reason magazine, recently argued, “The government can’t sell power and influence it doesn’t have.” If the federal trough were smaller, fewer special interest snouts could gorge themselves at the taxpayers expense, and therefore the pigs wouldn?...
...election coincided with a political reform that transferred considerable powers from the office of the President to the Rada and made the Prime Minister a Rada-nominated position. After controversial parliamentary maneuvering, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately began to dismantle the President's already diminishing powers by, for example, purging Yushchenko's Ministers from his Cabinet. Led by his well-funded and organized party, Yanukovych's coalition, now boasting 262 Rada votes, has been steadily stealing support from orange factions, which now control just 198 votes...