http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#campaign-finance <P>See also: <a href="congress.html">Congress</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Frank J. Sorauf, <cite>Inside Campaign Finance</cite> [Good, but I found it vexing to read this 1992-vintage book in 2006 &mdash; I kept wanting to know what he thought about the last 14 years!] <li><a href="http://unfluence.primate.net/">unfluence</a> </ul> <ul>To read (with thanks to Susan Buchman and Skye Bender-deMoll for pointers): <li>Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres, <cite>Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance</cite> <li>Brad Alexander, "Good Money and Bad Money: Do Funding Sources Affect Electoral Outcomes?", <cite>Political Research Quarterly</cite> <strong>58</strong> (2005): 353--358 <li>Clifford Waters Brown, Lynda V. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, <cite>Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns</cite> [1995. <a href="http://cambridge.org/0521440580">Blurb</a>] <li>Thomas L. Brunell, "The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Explaining Patterns of PAC Conbtributions to Candidates for Congress", <cite>Political Research Quarterly</cite> <strong>58</strong> (2005): 681--688 <li>Kevin M. Esterling, "Buying Expertise: Campaign Contributions and Attention to Policy Analysis in Congressional Committees", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055407070116"><cite>American Political Science Review</cite> <strong>101</strong> (2007): 93--109</a> [<a href="http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/APSRFeb07Esterling.pdf">PDF reprint</a>] <li>Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, <cite>Special Interest Politics</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262571678">blurb</a>. Game-theoretic modeling of campaign donations.] <li><a href="http://maplight.org/">MAPLight.org</a> <li>Michael P. McDonald and John Samples (eds.), <cite>The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics</cite> <li>John Samples, <cite>The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform</cite> <li>James M. Snyder, Jr. <ul> <li>"Campaign Contributions as Investments: The U.S. House of Representatives, 1980--1986", <cite>Journal of Political Economy</cite> <strong>98</strong> (1990): 1195--1227 <li>"On Buying Legislatures", <cite>Economics and Politics</cite> <strong>3</strong> (1991): 93--109 </ul> <li>Douglas D. Roscoe and Shannon Jenkins, "A Meta-Analysis of Campaign Contributions' Impact on Roll Call Voting", <cite>Social Science Quarterly</cite> <strong>86</strong> (2005): 52--68 <a href="http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/mark.wattier/Roscoe&Jenkins2005.pdf">PDF reprint</a>] </ul>