nytimes.com - It isn’t easy to reform the campaign finance system. Ask Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor who last year raised $11 million to elect candidates who favored restrictions on unlimited contributions and spending only to find he’d become the issue’s latest Don Quixote. But he’s back with a new plan, and other groups are trying new lines of attack, hoping to change the behavior of candidates and lawmakers through rewards and punishments.
Campaign finance laws aren’t usually changed until after scandals like Watergate, or when incumbents feel threatened by a new tactic (Congress quickly required disclosure after so-called 527 committees ran TV ads in the 2000 presidential primary season).
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