1. Why Local Television News Matters -- 2. A Brief History of Political Advertising -- 3. Research Method and Market Profiles -- 4. Political Ads -- 5. Political Stories -- 6. The Markets -- 7. The Business of News -- Conclusion : Where Do We Go from Here?

We examine the impact of a candidate's gender on electoral success in the primary and general elections, while controlling for other factors that may influence a candidate's success such as political experience, quality of the challenging candidates, and district-level demographics. The...

Previous research on congressional elections has largely concluded that House elections have become much less competitive in the modern era. Our research investigates one area where we should theoretically expect to observe more competition ﾖ namely, primary elections. In this paper, we...

This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...