Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a
strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology …

Vote buying, ie cash for votes, happens frequently in many parts of the world. However, in
the presence of secret ballots, there is no obvious way to enforce vote transactions. To infer …

In this article, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of
incumbency on campaign contributions in the US House and state legislatures. In both …

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Wahlkampfkommunikation vor, das es
erlaubt, Akteure, Strategien und Instrumente der Wahlkampfkommunikation systematisch zu …

A whole array of studies has shown that the physical appearance of candidates running for
elective office matters. However, it is unclear whether attractiveness or perceived …

In a time of increasing campaign costs and decreasing state political party activity, legislative
party campaign committees have grown to play a major role in the politics of elections in a …

Few academic disciplines have recorded their own origins and development in an
organized way. The American Political Science Association, in cooperation with Pi Sigma …

In this paper, we extend a well-trod line of research from congressional and state-level
elections—the electoral impact of campaign expenditures and candidate characteristics—to …

Este artículo analiza la primera elección directa de consejeros regionales en Chile, cargo
que antes del año 2013 se elegía de forma indirecta por representantes de los gobiernos …

Recent federal court activity has dramatically changed the regulatory environment of
campaign finance in the United States. Since 2010, the judiciary has decided that …