Can public campaign financing produce meaningful gains in competition within state legislative elections? A number of studies have confronted this question by employing a multitude of analytical techniques. This analysis adds to that body of work by taking a comparative approach that utilizes two distinct measures of competition in order to gauge the success of six different public financing programs in promoting a competitive atmosphere in state elections from 1994 to 2010. I find that the success of a public financing regime is entirely context dependent. Full funding programs do best in promoting competition in states with highly professionalized legislatures while partial funding programs tend to succeed in states with lower levels of p...
A common refrain is that there is “too much money in politics”, with many arguing for the public fun...
In a series of First Amendment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court established that government may regulat...
Campaign financing in state legislative elections is a topic generating a great deal of interest. Di...
In the era of Citizens United, as the notion of campaign finance becomes increasingly more entrenche...
Evidence compiled by the Institute over the last decade from all 50 states demonstrates that underst...
Advocates of public funding offer four main arguments about the consequences of taxpayer-financed el...
Advocates of public funding offer four main arguments about the consequences of taxpayer-financed el...
The decline of political efficacy and trust in the United States is often linked to the rise of mone...
Compared to congressional elections, gubernatorial races are underrep-resented in the campaign finan...
Campaigns are an important but under-studied component of legislative elections. How candidates allo...
Compared to congressional elections, gubernatorial races are underrep-resented in the campaign finan...
Recent years have seen increasing concern over the role of campaign finance in elections. But do str...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Political Science, 2017.This dissertation co...
This article presents a unified theory explaining several conflicting empirical observations in the ...
In this dissertation, I argue that full funding programs such as those functioning in the legislativ...
A common refrain is that there is “too much money in politics”, with many arguing for the public fun...
In a series of First Amendment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court established that government may regulat...
Campaign financing in state legislative elections is a topic generating a great deal of interest. Di...
In the era of Citizens United, as the notion of campaign finance becomes increasingly more entrenche...
Evidence compiled by the Institute over the last decade from all 50 states demonstrates that underst...
Advocates of public funding offer four main arguments about the consequences of taxpayer-financed el...
Advocates of public funding offer four main arguments about the consequences of taxpayer-financed el...
The decline of political efficacy and trust in the United States is often linked to the rise of mone...
Compared to congressional elections, gubernatorial races are underrep-resented in the campaign finan...
Campaigns are an important but under-studied component of legislative elections. How candidates allo...
Compared to congressional elections, gubernatorial races are underrep-resented in the campaign finan...
Recent years have seen increasing concern over the role of campaign finance in elections. But do str...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Political Science, 2017.This dissertation co...
This article presents a unified theory explaining several conflicting empirical observations in the ...
In this dissertation, I argue that full funding programs such as those functioning in the legislativ...
A common refrain is that there is “too much money in politics”, with many arguing for the public fun...
In a series of First Amendment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court established that government may regulat...
Campaign financing in state legislative elections is a topic generating a great deal of interest. Di...