When women run for office, they win at the same rate as men. A significant body of research
substantiating this claim has been touted by scholars and women's groups alike.“Gender …

Many researchers have assumed that social media will reduce inequalities between elite
politicians and those outside the political mainstream and that it will thus benefit democracy …

Presidential elections provide both an important context in which to study advertising and a
setting that mitigates the challenges of dynamics and endogeneity. We use the 2000 and …

Because campaign spending correlates strongly with election results, observers of American
politics frequently lament that money seems to buy votes. However, the apparent effect of …

Campaign finance policy in the United States is based on key assumptions about how voters
use information about money to evaluate candidates and institutions. In one view, voters use …

Objective Voters are more likely to reelect incumbents when political outcomes are positive.
Although most scholars assume this is because voters explicitly credit politicians for good …

Many models predict that incumbent legislators use government spending–“pork barrel”
spending–to increase their vote shares in elections. To date, however, evidence for this …

We link the intensity of campaign competition in different electoral systems with the number
of candidates running for public office and their ideological differentiation. We show that …

Objectives We examine the connection between pork‐barrel projects and the election
returns of members of the US Congress. While previous researchers have uncovered little …

This article (a) argues that campaign spending is no more effective for challengers than
incumbents in congressional elections using candidate-centered forms of proportional …