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Do Electoral Campaigns Influence Public Support for Trade? Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Election

Plouffe, Michael - 2018

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 …

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The Prosecutors and Politics Project : Study of Campaign Contributions in Prosecutorial Elections

Hessick, Carissa Byrne - 2019

The Prosecutors and Politics Project has compiled a database that identifies who contributed to prosecutor elections and the amount of their donations. Campaign contribution information is often publicly available, but the format of that information varies from state to state, the information is...

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Campaign Cost and Electoral Accountability

Prato, Carlo - 2018

The increasing cost of campaigns and its implications for the performance of the electoral process are issues of paramount importance in modern democracies. We propose a theory of electoral accountability where candidates choose whether to propose a socially beneficial policy and whether to pay...

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Regulating Election Finances in Calgary's Municipal Elections

Young, Lisa - 2017

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 …

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The Power of Money. The Consequences of Electing a Donor Funded Politician

Ruiz, Nelson A. - 2020

Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts during mayors' incumbency period in Colombia. Using a...

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How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multi-Country Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates

Le Pennec, Caroline - 2019

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

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Not Simply Black and White : The Relationship between Race/Ethnicity and Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections

Albright, Laura - 2014

In spite of the increasing campaign finance legislation aimed at equalizing barriers in political campaigns, a fundraising gap persists across racial/ethnic lines. In the era of modern campaigning, with the expenses of advertising and polling, among others, ample funds are necessary but not...

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Campaign Finance in U.S. House Elections

Kawai, Kei - 2014

This paper structurally estimates a dynamic model of fund-raising, campaign spending, and accumulation of war chest with unobserved candidate quality. We present an identification strategy similar to the one developed in the context of production function estimation that allows us to recover the...

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Small Donors in Congressional Elections

Culberson, Tyler James - 2014

Candidates raise substantial sums of money to compete in modern federal elections. Many electoral reform efforts focus on curbing the perceived undue influence of campaign donations by the wealthy. An intriguing new reform direction encourages small donor participation. To understand the...

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Financing Corporate Elections

Schwartz, Andrew A. - 2016

Elections for corporate directorships have become more competitive and expensive in recent years, raising important questions of corporate campaign finance, such as whether an insurgent campaign must disclose the source of its funding and whether a director is permitted to receive third-party...

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