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Money and politics : the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage
Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; … - 2017
This paper examines the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage. We study a reform in Brazil that imposed limits on campaign spending for mayoral elections. These limits were implemented with a discontinuous kink which we exploit for causal...
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Money and politics : the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage
Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685870
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Money and politics : the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage
Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710836
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The europeanization of political parties : influencing the regulations on political finance
Walecki, Marcin (contributor) - 2007
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Corporate power ratchet : the courts' role in eroding "we the people's" ability to constrain our corporate creations
Strine, Leo E. - 2015
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Regulating Political Activity : Notes on a Hypothetical Statute to Regulate Presidential Primary and General Election Campaigns
Lynk, Myles V. - 2009
This symposium on presidential campaigns and election law is both timely and significant. Timely because we meet as the 1992 federal election campaign season is about to get underway, and significant because it addresses two issues that lie at the heart of the Federal Election Campaign Act ("the...
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Regulating Election Finances in Calgary's Municipal Elections
Young, Lisa - 2017
Businesses in Calgary are not allowed to contribute so much as a dollar to the campaigns of candidates running for federal office or to any national political parties. Individuals may make a donation to federal candidates, but the amount cannot exceed $1,100; candidates and political parties are...
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The Business of American Democracy : Citizens United, Independent Spending, and Elections
Klumpp, Tilman - 2016
In Citizens United v. FEC (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that restrictions on independent political expenditures by corporations and labor unions are unconstitutional. We analyze the effects of Citizens United on state election outcomes. We find that Citizens United is associated with an...
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Tackling Corruption in Political Party Financing : Lessons from Global Regulatory Practices
Krishnan, Chandrashekhar - 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, while democracy has spread among many countries, the costs of funding political campaigns are also increasing rapidly, leading to growing reliance on funding from private sources. This increasing reliance on private money appears to be associated with greater...
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Knowledge of Campaign Finance Regulation and Attitudes towards Politics
Avkiran, Necmi K. - 2015
We use an experimental design to measure how campaign (political) finance regulation influences perceptions of … political corruption and trust in politicians when citizens are actually exposed to information about regulation. Unlike most of … regulation substantially reduces citizens' perceptions of corruption but has only limited effect on trust in politicians. Our …
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