▪ Abstract This article reviews efforts to study the impact of money in politics in democracies
outside of the United States. In recent years, democracies around the world have begun to …

This article considers the vast academic literature on campaign finance regulation in the
United States, drawing on the fields of political theory, American politics, election law …

Efforts to reform the US campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence
of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms …

This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate's
ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in …

Although good information is critical to effective decisionmaking, public agents' private
incentives to invest in gathering information may not align with the social interest in their …

Institutions' matter'to electoral reform advocates and political scientists-both argue that
variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the …

Over 40% of countries around the world have adopted limits on campaign contributions to
curb the influence of money in politics. Yet, we have limited knowledge of whether and how …

Scholarly evidence of transparency's beneficial effects on trust and perceptions of corruption
remains debated and confined to the study of public administration. We contribute to this …

Reformers claim that public subsidies and regulation of political finance reduce corruption in
politics, while observers worry that they have no impact on corruption, or even increase it …

Laws that regulate the financing of campaigns are one attempt to attenuate the role of
money in politics and promote more egalitarian policy outcomes. Do states with stricter …