A fundamental question in politics that has no conclusive answer to this day is whether or not campaign expenditures are pointless. Determining the role of campaign contributions and spending in elections is important for formulating campaign finance reform policy and also for understanding the public choice economics behind elections. Politicians seem convinced that money is an important component in any successful election as illustrated by numerous fundraisers and lofty goals of raising $1 billion for presidential campaigns, yet the empirical research on money’s role in elections has not reached a consensus. This project seeks to further explore the relationship between money and a candidate’s probability of winning an election using pan...
We develop a dynamic multidimensional signaling model of campaign finance in which candidates can s...
We match a survey-based dataset about the effectiveness of legislators in North Carolina House and S...
The focus of this dissertation is campaign spending in congressional elections. I examine the benefi...
In this paper, we argue that campaign contributions are not a form of policy-buying, but are rather ...
1Professor Ansolabehere thanks the Carnegie Corporation for their generous ¯nancial support under th...
Money in politics is the single largest threat to the democratic system in the United States. It inf...
With the marked increase in campaign spending and thus campaign fundraising we have seen an increase...
Campaign expenditures are not effective in increasing candidates’ vote shares if voters do not respo...
In this paper, I replicate Erikson and Palfrey (2000) who propose that the simultaneity problem in m...
In many recent elections, the candidates who raise the most money have a better shot at winning, so ...
Money in politics is the single largest threat to the democratic system in the United States. It inf...
This empirical analysis quantifies political science variables and tests to see if the sources of ca...
This study seeks to examine the relationship between the percentage of campaign donations coming fro...
The effectiveness of campaign spending is a hotly contested issue. Much of that debate concentrates ...
In the era of Citizens United, as the notion of campaign finance becomes increasingly more entrenche...
We develop a dynamic multidimensional signaling model of campaign finance in which candidates can s...
We match a survey-based dataset about the effectiveness of legislators in North Carolina House and S...
The focus of this dissertation is campaign spending in congressional elections. I examine the benefi...
In this paper, we argue that campaign contributions are not a form of policy-buying, but are rather ...
1Professor Ansolabehere thanks the Carnegie Corporation for their generous ¯nancial support under th...
Money in politics is the single largest threat to the democratic system in the United States. It inf...
With the marked increase in campaign spending and thus campaign fundraising we have seen an increase...
Campaign expenditures are not effective in increasing candidates’ vote shares if voters do not respo...
In this paper, I replicate Erikson and Palfrey (2000) who propose that the simultaneity problem in m...
In many recent elections, the candidates who raise the most money have a better shot at winning, so ...
Money in politics is the single largest threat to the democratic system in the United States. It inf...
This empirical analysis quantifies political science variables and tests to see if the sources of ca...
This study seeks to examine the relationship between the percentage of campaign donations coming fro...
The effectiveness of campaign spending is a hotly contested issue. Much of that debate concentrates ...
In the era of Citizens United, as the notion of campaign finance becomes increasingly more entrenche...
We develop a dynamic multidimensional signaling model of campaign finance in which candidates can s...
We match a survey-based dataset about the effectiveness of legislators in North Carolina House and S...
The focus of this dissertation is campaign spending in congressional elections. I examine the benefi...