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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"campaign finance"”.
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Pluralism And Presidential Campaign Finance Reform: A Policy Analysis Of Campaign Finance Reform From Feca To Bcra
… in American politics is that the addition of campaign finance laws at the presidential election level will have a negative relationship with amount of influence and money in campaigns and the amount of regulation. In other words, as regulation goes up the amount of money and influence will …
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THE DAY BEFORE REFORM: CAUSES OF STATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 1970-2005
State legislative campaign finance reform varies considerably among states and over time. Over the past 35 years states have adopted increasingly stronger reform policies; however, many disparities between states still exist. Current state legislative campaign finance laws range from disclosure …
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The Implications of A Distributed Autonomous Organization On Political Campaign Finance Regulations
… such as smart contracts to the political finance world–a new platform for bad actors to leverage emerges. This paper discusses how blockchain technologies such as distributed autonomous organizations (DAO) and smarts contracts can be leveraged to further cripple the credibility and …
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Courts, campaigns, and corruption : an empirical evaluation of the “appearance of corruption” rationale for campaign finance regulation
… Buckley v. Valeo, arguably their most important campaign finance decision, the United States Supreme Court argued that the appearance of political corruption alone might be sufficient to undermine the health of a representative democracy. There has been little empirical evidence to support this …
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The role of money in local American politics
… role of political spending on elections. Campaign finance regulations have evolved as a patchwork of legislation and court precedent speaking to these concerns, with substantial variation in scope and enforcement across the states. Regrettably, research is lacking in municipal contests, …
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Special Interests and Climate Change: An Analysis of PAC Contributions to Members of the 111th U.S. House
… it analyzes how different groups leverage campaign finance by comparing contribution strategies by political action committees (PACs) representing fossil fuel interests and environmental advocacy groups. Industry not only outspends environmental advocacy groups, but is better represented in …
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Elections with incomplete information
… In chapter 2, I study a simple model of campaign finance with possibly asymmetric candidates. Each candidate has the option of promising favors to interest groups in exchange for the funds they need to reveal information to the voters. When the incumbent has a sufficiently large ex-ante …
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The effect of political finance on corruption risk in Colombia
… that large sums of money poured into election campaigns are the gateway to corruption. Allegations of the corrupting influence of money in politics and policy are widespread on the national level. Yet, little empirical evidence has advanced the understanding of such a link on the local level, …
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Nurses, Politics And Policy: Moving A Critical Initiative Forward Through Education, Inspiration And Motivation For Political Activity
… & regulation, election law, voting rights, campaign finance, and administrative law. </p>
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Essays on the Political Economy of Inequality, Wealth, and Money
… that covers the universe of lobbying reports and campaign finance filings from 1999. Taken together, my dissertation not only contributes to theoretical knowledge in political science and political economy and offers new empirical evidence on inequality but hopefully also provides those who seek a …
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Probing the finance gap theory: does gender affect campaign contributions?
… of money as their male opponents when they campaign (Newman 1994; Burrell 1994; Seltzer et al. 1997; Dolan 2006; Darcy et al. 1994; Wilhite and Theilmann 1986; Burrell 1985; Uhlaner and Schlozman 1986; Welch et al. 1985). However, women are still underrepresented at all levels of government …
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Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity, and Law
… of community and regarding the public policy of campaign finance. The view I defend also sheds light on how we understand ourselves as members of a national community, as individuals and citizens at the same time, and helps to explain why the romantic expressivist individualism associated with …
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Challenges for Good Government Reformers in California: Shadow Lobbying & Astroturfing
… they search for solutions to reform and regulate campaign finance and lobbying laws. Reformers often focus on larger case studies to pinpoint the problem and solution to a good government issue, such as the Citizens United ruling and the upcoming McCutcheon case before the United States Supreme …
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Effect Of Candidate Spending On Vote Share
<p>Prior research on the effect that candidate spending has on vote share has produced conflicting results, with some research finding that only spending by challenger candidates has an effect on the vote outcome and other research finding incumbent and challenger spending roughly equally …
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Application of Social Networks to Fundraising in the Presidential Nomination Process of 2008
<p>Campaign donations are something that scholars have examined for some time, generally treating these donations as an aggregated explanatory variable. Through technological advances in computing, size is no longer a limitation that inhibits scholars from using this information in a robust manner. …
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REPUTATIONAL EFFECTS IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF REPEAT CANDIDACY AND INTEREST GROUP ENDORSEMENTS
… interest group endorsements lead to increased campaign contributions, as compared to unendorsed candidates, but that others do not. This research points to a number of opportunities for future research as the relationship between endorsements and campaign resources is vastly understudied.
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On to bigger and better things: the behavioral consequences of ambition in the US House of Representatives
… Drawing upon a wide variety of legislative and campaign activities (including roll call votes, introductions and cosponsorships, amendments, and campaign contributions), I examine whether ambitious legislators increase the levels of their activity, modify the content of their agendas, and spend …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… dismantled federal and state efforts at campaign finance reform, made union fundraising more difficult, and restricted the availability of First Amendment protection for students, prisoners, and government employees. This explanation, however intuitive and prevalent, is complicated by …
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Climate-related events and political campaign finances
Este documento estudia el impacto de los eventos relacionados con el clima en el financiamiento de campañas para alcaldías en Colombia. La exacerbación de eventos naturales debido al cambio climático puede causar un efecto de ingreso sobre la población, y también puede causar transferencias desde …