K Benoit, M Marsh - American Journal of Political Science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A puzzle in research on campaign spending is that while expenditure is positively related to votes won, this effect is far more strongly, or even exclusively, enjoyed by challengers rather …
K Benoit, M Marsh - Political Research Quarterly, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Positive effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes have been found in several comparative, multiparty contexts, but very few of these systems use proportional …
K Benoit, M Marsh - Party Politics, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Although perceived by candidates and parties as important in affecting political outcomes, the link between spending and success in multi-candidate, multiparty election campaigns …
K Benoit, M Marsh - Irish Political Studies, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
For the first time in Irish electoral history, the 1999 local elections required candidates to publicly declare their campaign expenditures. Drawing on these data, we explore patterns in …
F De Maesschalck… - Belgeo. Revue belge de …, 2003 - journals.openedition.org
This paper examines the relationship between electoral results and party manifestoes from a spatial perspective. The manifestoes and electoral geography of two new, allegedly «urban» …
E García-Viñuela, I Jurado, P Riera - South European Society and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses which districts are targeted by Spanish political parties in their electoral campaigns. We find that the major Spanish parties-PP and PSOE-mobilise districts where …
This study examines political parties' attitudes toward funding options. The condition of lack of funding is argued to indirectly impact the political parties' preferences toward the state as …
Controlling for district magnitude, party characteristics and election effects, we find that the major Spanish parties-PP and PSOE-mobilise districts where they are more likely to win a …