What role do business leaders play in American democracy? The dominant narrative in
political science holds that business leaders have disproportionate influence; this influence …

We build a new dataset of all 340 million individual contributions reported to the US Federal
Election Commission 2005-2020 to study the characteristics and behavior of small …

This study advances research on the role of protest in individual-level participation
repertoires by examining how latent class analysis can be used to identify distinctive types of …

A powerful new account of how populist movements are sabotaging political institutions from
within and undermining democracies across the globe. The 2016 election of Donald Trump …

We study France's 1995 ban on firm donations to politicians. We use a difference-in-
differences approach and a novel dataset combining the campaign manifestos issued by …

Social media has transformed electoral politics and allows campaigns to micro-target
supporters. However, little is known about the effectiveness of political ads on social media …

Inferences about individual campaign contributors are limited by how the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) collects and reports data. Only transactions that exceed a cycle-to-date …

Theories in campaign finance research suggest that interest group contributions moderate,
and individual contributions polarize, state legislators. However, interest groups are …

How does candidate ideology affect donors' contribution decisions in US House elections?
Studies of donor motivations have struggled with confounding of candidate, donor, and …

Abstract The United States Supreme Court 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal
Election Commission led to a major deregulation of election campaign finance law. A new …