Political Spending

Critics of American politics often say that spending on electoral campaigns harms our democracy and charge that the money goes for cynical, negative, and ...

McCain-style campaign finance regulation is the new campaign reality. But what exactly will this reformist utopia look like? Assessing the “reformed” campaign of the future against the stated ...

I n the 2000 race for the presidency, Arizona senator John McCain promoted campaign finance reform as a partial remedy for widespread citizen cynicism toward politics. On ...

Thirty years ago, Gordon Tullock posed a provocative puzzle: considering the value of public policies at stake and the reputed in°uence of campaign contributions in ...

In this article, Jay Goodliffe challenges conventional wisdom on the effect of war chests in U.S. House elections. As many "reformers" suggest that war ...

Proponents of new restrictions on campaign finance often argue that the United States spends too much money on campaigns and elections. That proposition is difficult to sustain ...

Scholarly attention to congressional campaign spending has focused primarily on the benefits candidates receive from that spending, from challenger deterrence to election victory to ...

The campaign finance reform ‘campaign’ is controlled and financed by liberal Democrats: wealthy soft money donors to the Democratic party and candidates, liberal foundations and Democratic ...

This chapter explores the relationship between U.S. House primary and general elections, focusing specifically on campaign finance. In the chapter, we assess how competitiveness in primaries ...

Rational political action committees (PACs) will give campaign contributions to candidates for two main reasons. Either the contributions are intended to influence the actions taken ...