Campaign Contributions over CEOs' Careers

Online Appendixes for Campaign Contributions over CEOs’ Careers American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Political Competition with Campaign Contributions and Informative Advertising

This paper presents a theory of political competition with campaign contributions and informative political advertising. Policy-motivated parties compete by selecting candidates and interest groups provide contributions to enhance the electoral prospects of like-minded candidates. Contributions are used to finance advertising campaigns that provide voters with information about candidates’ ideo...

The Influence of Campaign Contributions on Legislative Policy

Although many think campaign donations buy influence from legislators, scholars have difficulty determining whether and how much influence contributions have in the legislative process. Many studies seek to identify the influence of donors on roll call votes. After considerable debate most scholars have concluded that donors have little influence on these votes. What voting studies cannot detec...

Tobacco industry campaign contributions in Ontario, 1990-95.

campaign contributions from the tobacco industry can influence legislators’ tobaccorelated policy decisions. To our knowledge, there have been no published accounts of tobacco industry contributions to Canadian legislators. As part of a broader study examining Canadian legislators’ attitudes toward tobacco control policies and possible factors that influence those attitudes, we have documented ...

Brouhaha erupts over testosterone-testing advertising campaign.

a testosterone manufacturing firm to skirt direct-to-consumer advertising law, and may be risking lives, by allowing it to conduct an advertising campaign promoting testosterone testing, a group of doctors, pharmacists and researchers charge. Abbott Canada launched the print advertising campaign — under the banner “Has He Lost That Loving Feeling?” — during the summer, urging men to get their t...