Campaign Finance in US Politics

10 Apr 2009 17:40

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See also: Congress

Recommended:
• Frank J. Sorauf, Inside Campaign Finance [Good, but I found it vexing to read this 1992-vintage book in 2006 — I kept wanting to know what he thought about the last 14 years!]
• unfluence

To read (with thanks to Susan Buchman and Skye Bender-deMoll for pointers):
• Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres, Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance
• Brad Alexander, "Good Money and Bad Money: Do Funding Sources Affect Electoral Outcomes?", Political Research Quarterly 58 (2005): 353--358
• Clifford Waters Brown, Lynda V. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns [1995. Blurb]
• Thomas L. Brunell, "The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Explaining Patterns of PAC Conbtributions to Candidates for Congress", Political Research Quarterly 58 (2005): 681--688
• Kevin M. Esterling, "Buying Expertise: Campaign Contributions and Attention to Policy Analysis in Congressional Committees", American Political Science Review 101 (2007): 93--109 [PDF reprint]
• Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, Special Interest Politics [blurb. Game-theoretic modeling of campaign donations.]
• MAPLight.org
• Michael P. McDonald and John Samples (eds.), The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics
• John Samples, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
• James M. Snyder, Jr.
  • "Campaign Contributions as Investments: The U.S. House of Representatives, 1980--1986", Journal of Political Economy 98 (1990): 1195--1227
  • "On Buying Legislatures", Economics and Politics 3 (1991): 93--109
• Douglas D. Roscoe and Shannon Jenkins, "A Meta-Analysis of Campaign Contributions' Impact on Roll Call Voting", Social Science Quarterly 86 (2005): 52--68 PDF reprint]