Recent controversies in campaign finance have generated concerns that wealthy donors will dominate the political landscape, with Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission standing as the high‐water marks in the U.S. Supreme Court's...

We experimentally study the effect of alternative campaign finance systems - as characterized by different information structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative campaign finance systems are considered: a full...

In modern elections, ideologically motivated candidates with a wealth of information about individual voters and sophisticated campaign strategies are faced by voters who lack awareness of some political issues and are uncertain about the exact political positions of candidates. We study to what...

This paper examines political action committees? motivations for giving campaign contributions to candidates for political office. First, the paper estimates the effect of campaign contributions received by candidates on the outcomes of the 1996 elections to the U.S. House of Representatives....

Government marginalized freedom of expression rights of communists, socialists, labor and Leftist groups during the two prolonged Red Scare eras and during wartime to the extent that individuals and groups might impede the war effort. Much of the world was divided during the Cold War among...

Few issues today are more controversial than campaign finance reform. Fueled by a widespread public belief that the political process has been improperly distorted by the immense costs of running for public office, and the resulting perception that those who make significant campaign...

As Citizens United fades into the background and another election cycle approaches, efforts to limit the influence of inside power brokers over our politicians may seem hopeless. Yet while the tie between money and politics has been strengthened, all is not lost. This article highlights that...

This paper seeks to understand the contextual forces that drive political campaigns to publish attack videos on YouTube, and also explores how YouTube election campaigning differs from traditional television advertising. Using a sample of over 3,000 YouTube videos from 72 parties running in 13...

This study investigates which candidates were more likely to adopt Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections and the reasons why. Large majorities of the major party candidates for the House of Representatives had a Facebook page, Twitter account, and YouTube channel....