implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

election is unique in this regard; trade policy became a politically salient issue, and was treated as such during the … presidential election to identify the effect of electoral campaigns on the change in public support for trade in general and trade … agreements in particular. In contrast with the conventional wisdom, we find that the election and presidential campaigns not only …

cannot exceed $1,100; candidates and political parties are also limited in the amount they can spend during an election …. After the election, candidates must transfer any surplus funds to a registered party association, where the money will be …

after, the election. Changes in vote choice are concomitant to shifts in salient issues and beliefs about candidates, while …

of election laws, not least because the discretionary nature of the lump sum amounts means it is a form of political …

pronounced after the 2010 Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission US Supreme Court decision. In this study, we analyze … changing patterns of US election contributions and federal election outcomes. For our study, we used data from FEC database for … the net effect of 2010 court decision on election contributions and their subsequent influence on election outcomes …

2016 and 2018 mid-term elections. Using county-level election data, I find a significantly negative and spatially …

about the character of candidates, and this information affects voter and legislator behavior. The U.S. Federal Election …