The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the
recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical …

Using novel indicators of political connections constructed from campaign contribution data,
we show that Brazilian firms that provided contributions to (elected) federal deputies …

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political
accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that …

Almost every major episode of economic change over the past 200 years of political history
has been associated with key personalities coming to power with a commitment to these …

I develop a statistical method to measure the ideology of candidates and political action
committees (PACs) using contribution data. The method recovers ideal points for …

An important empirical literature evaluates whether voters are rational by examining how
electoral outcomes respond to events outside the control of politicians, such as natural …

This paper studies the effects of campaign spending limits on the political entry, selection,
and behavior of local politicians in Brazil. We analyze a reform that limits campaign …

This article studies the role of political distortions in driving economic growth and
development in Africa. We first discuss how existing theories based on long-run structural …

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual
electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's …