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 …

This essay critically reviews research published in the last decade that explores how
lobbyists and interest groups influence the actions of the US Congress. The research is …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

abstract The authors begin by offering an overview of the sources and amounts of campaign
contributions in the US In the light of these facts, they explore the assumption that the …

Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes
interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling readers to …

I develop a method to measure the ideology of candidates and contributors using campaign
finance data. Combined with a data set of over 100 million contribution records from state …

We develop a new and comprehensive database of firm‐level contributions to US political
campaigns from 1979 to 2004. We construct variables that measure the extent of firm …

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful
aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller …

Concern that donations to political campaigns secure preferential treatment from policy
makers has long occupied judges, scholars, and the public. However, the effects of …

Corporate political activity (CPA) has increased rapidly in the United States; however,
research findings are spread across several social science fields. The authors use meta …