Goldwater Institute - Campaign Promises: A Six-year Review of Arizona's Experiment with Taxpayer-financed Campaigns

Excerpt: "Eliminating Clean Elections funding and spending limits, liberalizing the complex matrix of state contribution limits, and opening up politics to more private financial participation would encourage participation and competition, and engage the public more effectively than the Clean Elections program."

CATO Institute - Free Speech and the 527 Prohibition

Excerpt: "Studies indicate that campaign spending diminishes neither trust nor involvement by citizens in elections. Indeed, spending increases public knowledge of candidates among all groups in the population."