The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

A range of policy problems—from climate change to pension sustainability to skill shortages—
confront governments with intertemporal dilemmas: trade-offs between maximizing social …

We study a game in which candidates first choose platforms and then invest in costly
valences (eg, engage in campaign spending). The marginal return to valence depends on …

We connect three characteristics of political candidates: their preferences, their platforms,
and their valence. To do so, we define and study three types of elite polarization: preference …

Formal Models of Domestic Politics offers a unified and accessible approach to canonical
and important new models of politics. Intended for political science and economics students …

In a pervasive but controversial practice, drug firms frequently make monetary or in-kind
payments to physicians in the course of promoting prescription drugs. We use a federal …

When do parties use emotive rhetoric to appeal to voters? In this article, we argue that
politicians are more likely to employ positive affect (valence) in their rhetoric to appeal to …

In more than half of the democratic countries in the world, candidates face legal constraints
on how much money they can spend on their electoral campaigns, yet we know little about …

Candidates spend considerable resources campaigning. Prior research indicates
campaigning affects voting decisions but, as with advertising generally, what element of …

We test the agency theory of corporate political activity by examining the association
between the legality of independent expenditures and antitakeover lawmaking in the US …