Friday, 26 February 2010

Palda (2002) Campaign Finance An Introductory Essay

Palda's views on campaign finance, coming from the freedom of speech angle - following on from his 1994 book "how much is your vote worth?"
Available - PDF Link

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Thursday, 25 February 2010

Financing the 2004 Election (Brookings Institution Press)

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American Inst
VHL OpenShelf JK 1991 .F57 2006 Available

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Brookings Institution Press - Financing the 2008 Election: Assessing Reform

Financing the 2008 Election: Assessing Reform (Paperback)
~ Anthony Corrado (Editor), David B. Magleby (Editor)
Available - Amazon Link
# Paperback: 240 pages
# Publisher: Brookings Institution Press (January 2010)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0815703325
# ISBN-13: 978-0815703327


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Campaign Finance - implied threats and implied bribes

Another approach to looking at the effect of money that isn't spent directly.

Implied Threat - since Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission can the threat of issue ads change actions of legislators/candidates?

Implied Bribe - what do legislators do after they leave office? Does this give them skewed incentives?
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Gais (1998) Improper Influence

Improper influence : campaign finance law, political interest groups, and the problem of equality / Thomas Gais.
Publisher Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998
American Inst
VHL OpenShelf KF 4920 .G35 1998 Available

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Biersack, Herrnson and Wilcox (1999) After the Revolution

After the revolution : PACs, lobbies, and the Republican Congress / Robert Biersack, Paul S. Herrnson, Clyde Wilcox, general editors.
Available - American Inst
VHL OpenShelf JK 1991 .A66 1999

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Baron (1994) Electoral Competition with Informed and Uninformed Voters

Electoral Competition with Informed and Uniformed Voters
Author(s): David P. Baron
Source: The American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 33-47
Published by: American Political Science Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2944880
Available - Google Docs

Formal analysis based on candidates designing policies to sell policies to interest groups to generate funds to appeal to uninformed voters, and choosing policies that appeal to informed voters.

Cited by: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/2944880?seq=1&type=cite
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