Only a small portion of Americans make campaign donations, yet because ambitious
politicians need these resources, this group may be particularly important for shaping …

We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to
large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions …

Is charitable giving politically motivated? In this article, we use exhaustive administrative
household panel data and a natural experiment to quantify empirically the motivations for …

What explains how political donors decide where to give? Existing research indicates that
people donate money to express support for a preferred political “team” and enjoy the …

Rosenstone and Hansen's (1993) treatise on the mobilizing effects of campaign activity and
social interactions marks a turning point in scholarship on political participation. This essay …

Electoral campaigns are increasingly reliant on small donations from individual donors. In
this work, we examine the influence of racial and partisan social descriptive norms on …

In this paper, we demonstrate that when environmentalist niche parties compete in a given
constituency over a number of elections, but continually fail to win seats, then environmental …

We report the results of three field experiments that provided nonpartisan information about
municipal-and state-level incentives for making political contributions to potential donors …

Existing experimental studies find weak support for the theoretical prediction that matching
leadership giving alleviates free-riding and raises more voluntary contributions for public …

Why do individuals make political contributions? At present, the dominant answer to this
question in political science is that people donate money in order to express support for a …