Political Spending

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 ...

Federal campaign spending for all candidates running for the House and the Senate has risen by 180 in real terms from 1976 to 1994, ...

The relationships between political action committees and political parties are at once symbiotic and parasitic. Both parties work hard to cultivate PACs and secure their money, ...

House and Senate candidates raise approximately $200 million in campaign contributions from political action committees each election cycle. The lion’s share of this money goes ...

Campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) are often portrayed in the media as the functional equivalent of bribes. In particular, corporate PAC contributions are ...

This selection was excerpted from Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). In this article, Frank J. Sorauf, a distinguished political ...

Do special interest campaign contributions significantly alter how politicians vote on legislative issues? Can these political action committee (PAC) contributions ‘‘buy’’ votes within the Congress? Despite ...