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 …

Two candidates compete for elective office. Each candidate has information she would like
to reveal to the voters, but this requires costly advertising. The candidates can solicit …

This paper examines whether campaign contribution restrictions have consequences for
election outcomes. States are a natural laboratory to examine this issue. We analyze …

Much work on the apparent ineffectiveness on incumbent spending in congressional
elections has hypothesized that the productivity of incumbent spending is low because …

The isoperimetric ratio of an embedded surface in R^ 3 R 3 is defined as the ratio of the area
of the surface to power three to the squared enclosed volume. The aim of the present work is …

This paper investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral outcomes. In
French departmental and municipal elections, candidates competing in districts above 9,000 …

Dentro do tema mais amplo do financiamento político, os objetivos desta tese são explicar o
surgimento, a disseminação e os efeitos do financiamento público de partidos e campanhas …

The article investigates strategic, informative campaigning by two parties when politics
concern redistribution. Voters are uncertain about whether parties favour special groups …

Democracy has made impressive progress over the last thirty years in Latin America. Since
the beginning of the so-called third wave of democrati zation in 1978, the UNDP's index of …

In a series of First Amendment cases, the US Supreme Court established that government
may regulate campaign finance, but not if regulation imposes costs on political speech and …